No one could have Rulekeeper. But you can't loose hope.

Everyone lost a dear friend today but Glitcher made sure to prepare everyone for the worst.

And you never know. Maybe if you can get access to the ring shell you can tell it to spit him back out good as new. It had to have kept logs detailing exactly what it did with all the parts of his core. Find those logs and maybe you could command it to reassemble his parts and return him to you.

For now you need to be strong. You have two eggs to raise and a countless number of contestants who are scared and afraid. Make sure they have someone to look up to and guide them.

Alison will help and so will Corruptor and so many more. You are not alone in this no matter what it might seem like right now.

Chin up!

Plans never really lasted that long with Glitcher around. With him, somehow, that was overall a good thing.

Have you and his closer friends considered taking some time to sort through your feelings? Maybe hold some sort of memorial? There probably aren't too many of you who would feel personally affected in an emotional sense.

Who could have foreseen how far Savior had fallen? Maybe we could have avoided Glitchers fate if we had known about his guardian but he would have kept pushing until he forced your hand. And maybe far more would have been lost to his madness if Glitcher had not acted.

He is still out there you know. He is spinning around inside the ring shell in a thousand tiny parts. All working for some unknown goal. Maybe you can steal him back.

We know now that Savior and the shell are linked. And everything Corruptor and he did was designed to help your invisible creators peer get a glimpse into your world that was normally invisible to them. And that means the system recorded everything that happened to Glitcher.

You will need to find out how to break into the ring shell to stop the cycles. And maybe if you can do that you can force it to reverse what it did to Glitcher and give him back to you. We have done the impossible before so don't loose all hope.

So go find Alison and Corruptor and start planning your next move. You have a world to repair and just maybe a Glitcher to save.

>>745590
No one did.

He saved your life. The system would have unmade you, so he saved you instead. And then he gave what he saved meaning. And then when the tables were reversed, you couldn't do anything to save him.

...you still have things you need to do, though.

You've still got to look after all the contestants and people in stage 8. Which is presumably unpaused now, without Glitcher. (Unless some combination of Rulekeeper / Savior / Corruptor powers gives you access to some kind of time stop now).

You still need to see this admin wrestling contest thing through the end, since the stages will need admins. We might need new people at the microphones, without Glitcher, and if you're not up to it.

You might want to visit the veiled areas again to clean up the Corruption for them. (And to tease Mittens by telling him you're literally Savior now. Glitcher would have enjoyed that).

There's more personal stuff, too. You have to look after the eggs. Make sure your kids are taken care of. They matter, and you're going to do everything you can for them, with or without him.

You have to do something with Glitcher's siblings Savior was keeping as experiments / pets. You've pretty much inherited responsibility for them, and they're basically babies. They need taking care of. Pretty sure they only lasted 5 to 15 years in Savior's care because he was terrible and they got depressed and lonely. They need a firm hand, tvs that don't manipulate them with propaganda, and socializing with people. Play schoolmarm, basically.

You need to talk to people who are close to you. People who are sharing part of the same pain. Alison can provide some comfort, and she'll be help in figuring out what to do next. You're going to be working a lot with Corruptor, and he was Glitcher's best friend.

You need to figure out what the bigger plan will be. The sanctuary can preserve people across cycles, probably, but we need to be looking for a way to end all of this.

...and of course, you'll be looking for a way to bring him back. You laughed at the impossibility of reassembling that other Glitcher who shattered. This will be even harder, since not only is Glitcher broken to a million pieces, but the pieces were stolen and reused and scattered in a giant haystack made of haystacks that melts people you don't even have access to. But you're going to look for a way, anyways.

Who could have?
All you can do now is keep him in your memories and keep moving forward. It's what he'd want.
But we have control of Paradise now, not to mention Savior himself. Perhaps that's made you permanent in the same way Savior was? For the first time we finally have something resembling the upper hand, and we know more about the system than any other entity in any other cycle, with the exception, perhaps of the CAI made from cycle 1.

You've got this.

We're still on track. We didn't want it to happen this way, but our plans are still more or less intact. Savior is toppled and the Corruptor is on our side. It's time to crack the mystery of the CAI's instant-win button and end this.

Rulekeeper 2016/09/01(Thu)20:53 No. 745601 ID: d1f5f1
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Right now, the two eggs are with Alison and whoever is with her. I was tempted to bring them into paradise at least until they hatch, but I would rather them have company even if I am not entirely sure if they will have a mind of any sort up until they hatch.

There are lots of people around, and it would be foolish to go into seclusion now of all times. Especially since I know that there are a small handful of people that wanted to talk to me before long.

>Have you and his closer friends considered taking some time to sort through your feelings?
There will be that, but I have not stopped time just to grieve.

>Maybe we could have avoided Glitchers fate if we had known about Savior's guardian but he would have kept pushing until he forced your hand
Given what he showed near the end, I believe Savior would have outright attacked his friends to force his hands out of desperation.

I've thought about what I could do. But it's all things that hinge on me knowing what I know now. I believe my thought will be put to better use by finding a way to get Glitcher back, since in some way, shape or form, I believe he still exists. To do so seems implausible, and I must recognize this, but it does not hurt to keep an open mind to ideas that point to possibilities.

>Stage pause state
It is currently unpaused, but by my own decision. My powers are capable of freezing entire stages within the current cycle. I may need to fetch a glitcher who can be loyal. There are several inside of the paradise, but they don't seem reliable. I will likely ease them into becoming, well... decent. Perhaps I will have them watch the wrestling games at first, and slowly introduce them to contestants in person.

Perhaps Mittens is a good first choice. He may have not been the most stable, but he was benevolent in some manner.

Nonetheless, with Savior's power, I am permanent through cycles and have expanded powers that cover some of what Glitcher could do. I am capable of moving through space, myself, now.

Right now, I have a handful of letters addressed to various people that Glitcher wanted delivered upon his death. More than I initially expected he would have logs for, although I expect some are simple quips.
Myself, our offspring, corruptor and Alison are unsurprising, but he also has letters addressed to Sweatermouse, Radmin, Sevener, a few others, and someone named 'Hasbeen'. I do not know of anyone by that name.

Just think of what Glitcher would want you to do if he was here.

He spent a lot of time alone and depressed and he would hate the thought of seeing you in the same situation.

So go get everyone and let them all know what Glitcher did for them. You are not going to let some mindless system get away with stealing your lover or reseting your people.

There is a lot to get done and not as much time to do it in.

1. What powers were unique to Glitcher? You have possibly dozens of his siblings lurking around so put them to work. Get them out of the miserable holes Savior dumped them into and get them freezing time and working with you to get stuff done.

2. Finish this wrestling in grand fashion so you have a Admin team to work with again. And record it just incase.

3. Investigate your new Paradise home and make sure you have learned its secrets. Any attempt to get into the ring shell or save Glitcher will probably start by learning how its connected to the ring shell.

4. Get those poor souls in the veil cycles uncorrupted. I don't like the idea of them stuck in a horrible loop like that. Plus monster hands seemed pretty reasonable and might make a good leader of your glitcher sibling army.

5. Comfort Corruptor. His powers will be needed more than ever and he is a sensitive soul. Loosing his oldest friend has to have hurt him. Go give him hope and tell him we are not giving up on saving Glitcher. Also can you use your new savior powers to cleanse his corruption? Might be a key for abilities that have never been seen before.

Am tempted to have you save your letter and not open it. Then you can save those last words from Glitcher until you are ready. Or make him tell you himself once you bring him back.

Read the Hasbeen one and see who that might be first.

>I may need to fetch a glitcher who can be loyal.
You might want to come to terms with Corruptor before you go recruiting. You were with Glitcher, and he was Glitcher's oldest friend. You have him in common, and you're probably going to be working together, now.

And if would probably hurt him that you went looking for someone new for help before reaching out to him.

>the sanctuary
Did you check on any of the inhabitants, or tell them what happened? I imagine the people down there are confused and scared by, you know, Corruptor wrapping around the entire sphere and then everything exploding.

You might want to let them into the wrestling area, or allow an ambassador the other way, to bring people up to speed, if you're not up to doing it yourself right now.

>letters
Read your own. Don't read the others, but hold onto them for later delivery.

Maybe peek at the "Hasbeen" one, to figure out who the heck that is.

Well, open the letter to you, first, and read it. It might tell you who Hasbeen is? But even if not.

Don't open the others. I'm sure Glitcher would have told you anything you needed or would have wanted to know, you two got to know each other pretty well. And maybe he left someone instructions to do something nice for you, which you'd want to keep as a surprise for yourself.

From the way you are holding those it looks like he is saying "To Rulekeeper it has been ..."

Did he put in a secret note in the addresses or something silly? Maybe peek at the hasbeen one.

Deliver Corruptors first. He is probably a wreck and needs comforting. Alison and the others will grieve and recover but Corruptor might get in a funk if you let him sit alone.

>>745601
Hasbeen must have been someone from a previous cycle he saw through his notes, if he's not anyone that currently exists in this cycle. Can you check Paradise for him as well? Actually considering people in Paradise are from all sorts of cycles, one of them must know who Hasbeen is.

Unless Hasbeen is his insulting name for Radmin.

>>745608

Maybe Hasbeen is his insulting name for Savior.

>>745609
Ohhhh, that would make sense.

Something else occurs to me. Savior put some veil on himself once and it did nothing. Is the veil around his cage serving any purpose whatsoever?

If you have contact with Mittens maybe you can ask him if... there was anything he could have done. If he would have attacked Savior in Glitcher's stead. If he would have gone anywhere near the guardian to try to rescue Glitcher once he got caught. If his 18k year old mentor mentioned anything that could have helped.

If I recall, we left Mittens still thinking we were Savior's goons, so we'd need to bring something to convince him. Maybe a few Alisons? He'd know Savior didn't Save anyone beyond cycles besides other glitchers, so bringing multiple Alisons from cycles he doesn't know could demonstrate that something different is going on.

We'd want to be careful, facing a Glitcher of uncertain friendliness when we don't have one of our own.

1/2 Rulekeeper 2016/09/01(Thu)21:39 No. 745614 ID: d1f5f1
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>Did you check on any of the paradise inhabitants, or tell them what happened?
While we were taking over paradise, we teleported everyone back to the stadium, because we did not want to risk everyone while Corruptor and I were taking it over. Since then, they have more or less been informed.

I will wait just a little bit before reading my own letter. I should not put it off for ages just when I want to hear a message from him, as there is a miniscule chance that he had something particularly important for me to hear, that he did not share with me earlier. I will deliver other messages, first.

I will read Hasbeen, though, just so I can figure out whos it is.

Dear Hasbeen
did you think i was above jabbing at you while you were locked in a 10% bubble of prison for the rest of ever
well I'm not
right now I'm having a blast on your paradise and that's where you died so I'm basically dancing on your grave right now
spent 10k to git gud and I'm gonna spend 10k years making it worth it
I bet you wish you could see what's going on around you but me the glitcher'll tell you what's going on: me, out there, having the time of my life for the rest of a long life with his friends
cause my friends are here with me and not with you
cause you got no friends
cause you were a shit to the end
while I go play god and let everyone have fun from here on out, just think how cool things would be if you had the slightest compassion for anything but your own ego

p.s.told your glitcher not to touch my girl and that went for you too

p.p.s. if Rulekeeper said I died just ignore her

The savior. Perhaps Glitcher would approve of my deleting the last line. Hm. What a petty letter.

>Is the veil around his cage serving any purpose whatsoever?
I wonder. Perhaps if he put some on himself before, he had a light shield of regular contestant thread that would not get eaten by the veil. Perhaps his cage is not particularly useful. However, he is currently suspended above paradise with no surrounding thread, and I am watching it constantly. Even if his cage is not holding him, he no longer has his powers. I have usurped his mind's place as the sentience of paradise.

He wasn't just a stage, not even a cycle, but he was an entire portion of block B. He had permissions, and could have ran cycles of his own if he wanted. As such, he can stop time, rewind, move through the universe, and so on.

More importantly, it was not just limited to his own portion. It seems that there was only the thinnest barrier of separation between the two universes, and permissions from one carried on to the other.

2/2 Rulekeeper 2016/09/01(Thu)21:39 No. 745615 ID: d1f5f1
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I go to Corruptor. He is currently laying on the streets at the edge of the roamable stadium area.

"Hello, Corruptor."

...

"As Glitcher said, he wrote logs to be handed out to various people. He included one letter for you. He would like for you to read it."
>"I can't."
"I would like you to, on his behalf. There may be some urgency, as well."
>"Can... you read it for me? Just... tell me if I need to read it now."

Offer to read it to him?

He is grieving, I can't say if reading the letter would help him or would it be better to let him read it on his own time.

However I do know he shouldn't be alone here, curled up and miserable. If you feel up to it, perhaps tell him your and glitcher's story. Share how you feel about him, both as when he was around, and now that he is gone.

Knowing you aren't alone in your grief can and does help.

>>745614
>Even if his cage is not holding him, he no longer has his powers.
You know what would be perfect revenge? Force him to go through a duplicate of the Contest, as a contestant. Over and over. Of course, you won't put in real contestants for his opponents, or bother to emulate brackets of stages he's not in.

>>745615
You haven't read yours. It's only fair that he gets to put off reading his. But just like yours, he's gonna need to read it soon, and he can prepare himself for that.

Maybe you can try to comfort him. Even though you didn't know him for very long, you know he was one of Glitcher's closest friends (sorry, Alison's friendship power is just too strong) and that means a lot.

>Hm. What a petty letter.

Glitcher had reason to be particularly resentful towards Savior. Aside Savior's threats to his loved ones, Savior was also one of his "parents". Glitcher would have taken Savior's bad behaviour very personally, as Savior was literally part of him. Glitcher would have hoped for Savior to be a good person, as Glitcher aspired to be a good person himself, and those hopes were betrayed.

To be fair, though it is a bad time to think of it, there are some family resemblances. A bit of ego, a bit of melodrama, a bit of the performer, a bit of vindictiveness. Savior was detestable, but in part at least he was what he was made to be. Perhaps tormenting him further would not serve any useful purpose. Even now, someone like Alison will probably still believe he could come to really regret and reflect on his life choices, now that he's finally been shown the consequences.

Or perhaps you should edit that last line to instead read "hey guess I learned a trick or two from my old man anyway huh?"

>Corruptor

Read his letter, then. If need be, "if he needs to read it now" could mean emotional need, as well.

>>745615
Corruptor, be a man, read the letter he made for you. It's a letter made for you, his final gift, his final words. You knows he's already gone, he's not going to be gone more because you read it, if anything, it's the last piece you'll ever have of him until maybe we can get him back.

Hey, so if you have savior so powers now, does that mean if anyone attacks you the megabeast will eat them? Then what happens if you attack yourself? Feedback loop? If the megabeast doesn't feedback loop to oblivion, it may be forced it eat itself when it starts eating you for hurting you?

1/2 Rulekeeper 2016/09/01(Thu)22:40 No. 745630 ID: d1f5f1
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>Glitcher had reason to be particularly resentful towards Savior.
Although I called the letter petty, I have no hesitation towards delivering it.

>Hey, so if you have savior so powers now, does that mean if anyone attacks you the megabeast will eat them? Then what happens if you attack yourself?
I do not know. Presumably the former. The latter would be extremely dangerous to test, as it did not seem particularly intelligent, and may have a one track mind for killing my killer, even if it is me.

"I am holding off on my own, but for a limited time. However, with your permission, I will read yours just to confirm. By the way, although I am not daring to hope there is a way to bring him back, I will be keeping an eye open for possibilities. Still, if it makes it easier, I can read it aloud for you."
>"Please read it yourself, first, and see."

To Corruptor:
Hey buddy. Sorry if I seemed a little distant to you. If I di

>"Wait! Sorry. Sorry. I'll... I mean... please read it out loud."

I start over and speak it.

"To Corruptor:
Hey buddy. Sorry if I seemed a little distant to you. If I died right after these logs were made then I screwed up pretty bad, because I should've gotten over the weirdness over meeting you again. I didn't want to say it, but remember how I was gone for like 10k years on my end? It was tough to remember our time together in the sanctuary. Normally looking at strings for data was well and cool but you're probably the only person it's a bad substitute for, 'cause it'd feel wrong to just have the strings emulate the feelings for my best bud. So I messed up hard thinking of how to approach you again after all that time, when I could've just enjoyed the time we spent cycle hopping and watching the both of us be incredibly naive and dumb in the past.

And I know I was! Looking at those strings... I was a huge baby back in the sanctuary, and my opinion now is better than it was when we were working together back then. And you were cool. Cool to me. Those contestants were dicks to me but you called them out on it, and we went to have fun with big scale operations. Even if it turned out not to matter too much, you made life actually a life for a whole lot of people, and things only got screwed up because of past cycle people spreading misinformation.

It's bullshit but even though I think you're a good guy and way better than just about every contestant I ever saw, you're going to have a lot of mistrust but that's okay because people are still clinging on to Alison's opinion, unless, like, you waited a hundred years before reading this. Anyways that's good, because she's all about second chances. Go get a hug from her. She's going to be a hundred times better at consoling you judging by what I wrote - actually upon rereading my letter, she'll be ten thousand times better, and judging by my strings you're a huge sap that's gonna be a sad sap. Wait a second are you sulking in a corner right now? Don't do that. Sure, I can think of like 100 reasons why you wouldn't want to be around people right now, but they're all bad.

Oh and go have some food at any place in the stadium I hacked it up so the flavor is max or close to it. Just give this letter as a coupon and they'll treat you to all you can eat food for free your pal, the glitcher, decreed it to be so.

P.S. I just remembered I can trap this letter to teleport you to the nearest Alison!"

2/2 Rulekeeper 2016/09/01(Thu)22:40 No. 745631 ID: d1f5f1
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>"Hello Rulekeep!" Alison says.

I feel as though Glitcher was afraid to spend much time thinking about these letters, as he must have forgotten how enormous Corruptor has gotten.

just teleport everyone in the room to the Corrupter and continue letter reading.

>>745631
>"Hello Rulekeep!" Alison says.
Alison's certainly chipper. I figured she'd be one of the people grieving the most right no-... wait, how many people is she hugging right now, Rulekeeper? Is it just Sweatermouse with her, or is she pinning down all of her best friends because she doesn't want them to leave her, too?

>how enormous Corruptor has gotten.
Well, since getting small's apparently not working out for him, maybe we should just make everything else bigger.

>>745632
Nope it's gotta be Corruptor to Alison, like Glitcher planned.

>>745631
Why IS he so big? Was he this big at the end of previous cycles?
Oh, he should get some time to practice his space manipulation capabilities. Could come in handy, who knows.

>>745635
When he was trapped in Saviors prison he decided to expand his body to try and break it.

>>745631
Give Alison her card and perhaps try to convince Corruptor then he needs to talk to someone about this. Alison would be ideal, of course, but i think he just needs to get it off his chest. If he even has a chest.

>>745637
Yeah then he shrunk back down again afterwards.

...then he got truly massive to corrupt Paradise. Maybe he hasn't shrunk back down again.

>>745635
>>745637
>>745640
>Why is Corruptor still so huge

>>/questarch/744375
>"I'm trying [to shrink faster]! But I guess my core doesn't like getting cramped.
>>/questarch/744399
>Corruptor gets big again because apparently that's what's comfortable now.
Apparently he just can't comfortably do anything other than "extra ultra large" anymore. Heh, maybe we should start calling him Jörmungandr.

Warn Alison of an incoming Corruptor, increase the room size if necessary, and teleport him to Alison. He needs a hug, and you probably need one as well.

>unsafe beast attacks
Are you putting more than 1 string into your projections, so you won't pop as soon as a Glitcher touches your avatar? Savior had to be doing that on purpose. Making the avy weak as a trap. Hopefully you can bolster yours to avoid accidents.

>The savior. Perhaps Glitcher would approve of my deleting the last line. Hm. What a petty letter.
Alison wouldn't approve of deleting him. And it's always possible you might need him. Maybe you might find a way to harvest information from his memories, or maybe his core can be used to trigger some kind of access privileges, or maybe you can hold him ransom if the creators really do care.

>Hm. What a petty letter.
As petty as Savior was in the end, I think Glitcher deserves to get a little back.

>>745631
*Sigh* Hello, Alison. I didn't mean to come see you so soon, Glitcher left a hug-trap.

(Good thing the trap grabbed Corruptor too, not just you for reading it. Another reason not to snoop and read any of the others, in case you trip tracks / gifts when the recipient isn't around).

>I feel as though Glitcher was afraid to spend much time thinking about these letters, as he must have forgotten how enormous Corruptor has gotten.
It's fine. Everything with this is fine.

>>745634
>Alison's certainly chipper. I figured she'd be one of the people grieving the most right now
She's made of emotional iron, she's probably far more focused on the emotional states of others than she is on her own sadness at Glitcher's death. Not that she isn't hurt by this, but she isn't the type to let it hurt her performance.

Now get in the snake pile, Rulekeeper.

Tell Alison hello, and that you're sorry to interrupt but you are about to heed some of Glitcher's wishes and teleport Corrupter here to her. Then make the room bigger, go to Corruptor, tell him sorry about that and you're going to put things the way Glitcher was aiming to. Then teleport him to Alison.

Then get in the snake pile yourself. Cuddle up some with your eggs, too. You never know, maybe they'll be able to sense your presence.

So far it seems like Glitcher was expecting his letters to be read pretty soon. That teleport trap could have been a terrible thing to have happen when people had started getting back to work again.

By the way I hope the general infodump on everyone included the fact that the Corrupter they'd been seeing for the past while was an imposter?

You know what lets teleport all the letter recipients over here and make a party of reading these things. Let people talk over things and have proper wake for Glitcher. Maybe have some food delivered.

Then go snuggle up in the hug pile between Alison and Sweatermouse and start handing out letters. (Cept for Saviors)

Oh and cuddle up and talk to your eggs while doing so. Handle them as much as possible and sing to them and keep them warm. This is your chance to bond with the little ones. I bet you anything that how you treat them now will affect how they grow up. Its how it works with biological eggs.

1/2 Rulekeeper 2016/09/02(Fri)16:29 No. 745766 ID: d1f5f1
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>Alison wouldn't approve of deleting [Savior].
I meant the last line of Glitcher's letter about ignoring me, as it is irrelevant. I do not intended on killing Savior unless he proves too dangerous to let live. No signs point to that being the case.

>Why IS Corruptor so big?
I believe he was attempting to contain his size, but he let it get out of hand upon wrapping himself around Paradise. I do not know why he initially got so large, though, but it takes much longer for him to shrink.

"You seem well, Alison."
>"I miss him already, but he sounded like he was happy with everything, at the end. And I think we can resurrect him."
"Do you have an idea?"
>"Not yet, but there are so many people who will if they don't already. Remember, Rulekeeper, it was before your time, but all contestants start off with no reason to think that death is temporary. Everyone who made it far enough to see you had to have gotten used to the idea of friends dying at any time, even if we later learned they simply turned into ghosts. I'm just thankful that we had the chance to talk to Glitcher at the end."
"Glitcher's death may not be so parallel."
>"I know. There's more, though. He said he believed everything was connected, didn't he? Now he's part of the upper echelon, and I think he's just looking down on us, now. In other words, I don't think he's gone. I miss him, yes, but I just can't see him as truly gone."
"Hm. Well, both of you have logs addressed to you. They're Glitcher's final words to both of you in particular."

I hand one to Alison, but Sweatermouse doesn't reach for it.

"Wait, me? Who?"
"You, Sweatermouse. Who else?"
"Well - wait is everyone hiding? There's like 4 other people down in here!"

I sense. Iso, Recluse, Catatonic, and Smuggler.

"Sweatermouse, Alison, and Smuggler. Those are the ones with deliveries. I will leave the logs with each of you and, in the spirit of Glitcher's wishes, summon Corruptor here."
>"Is he shrunk down?" Recluse asks.
"No."
"Uhhhh is that a good idea then?" Sweatermouse asks.
"It is not, but I will put a spatial disconnect around this room and increase its size. Please put your letters in your non-physical inventory slots."

2/2 Rulekeeper 2016/09/02(Fri)16:29 No. 745767 ID: d1f5f1
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>Infodump on corruptor includes his impostor
Everyone has been informed that after the CAI fight, Corruptor had nothing to do with anything.

Corruptor is summoned.

>"O-oh. Hi, Alison." says Corruptor.
>"Hello Corruptor! What's going on?"
>"Uh... Glitcher wanted you to hug me, or, well, me to get a hug from you."
>"I can and will. You've gotten big, though!"
"I will grant you additional tail length, Alison. Also, Glitcher has left you a letter as well."
"Uh, why did I get a letter anyway?" asks Sweatermouse.
"I did not ask. While we are here, I may as well summon others who also had letters addressed to them. The Referee room will temporarily be made into a communal room."

I summon Sevener, Radmin, and Arbiter to this room, explaining that I will hand them their letters as they come in.

Once I hand out the logs, I am left holding Savior's, my own, and our childrens. I and coil myself around the eggs and sink down into Alison's tail.

"Hello, children." I whisper. "I really should decide on names for you too. Although I don't know if you can hear or feel me." These are neither biological nor even eggs, the word 'egg' being used for lack of a better term.

I suppose it's fair, now, to read my own log.

Wow! It's me, the Glitcher, and I'm dead! That, or your name isn't the Rulekeeper, either because it never was or because now you're Rulebreaker!

Anyway, if you, the Rulekeeper, are reading this, then the bad news is that I'm dead, but the good news is that you're not. And that's more important right now forever. Guess I should've stopped leading for a bit and checked out where you wanted to go! I got the idea but then I did stuff anyway. If I have a tombstone, my epitaph should be 'whoops'.

This is about as far as I got before I realized I don't know what else to say. I've already talked your ear off while we were flying through space, and gave you the important logs for information. You probably got your fill of me talking and were hoping that this log had some revelation I was hiding! Lucky for you, I had the foresight to hide information about a kind of formidable being in advance, just so that this log would have something important to say.

You know how sometimes I call myself the best? For while I thought I was, but then we've been meeting all these glitchers and all these powerful entities, and now I know what I really like to do - wait should I be writing this in past tense? Yeah I guess, so what I liked to do best is to pretend I was the best! And that's good, because it was pretend. I wasn't the best out there, as it turned out.

You are. You're the best.



Oh.

He really did care for you a whole lot. You are both lucky to have found each other.

Your eggs are just as complex as any biological ones. And just as important. Remember that you and everyone you know is the end result of the engineering prowess of a empire that did nothing but work towards building something greater then themselves for countless centuries. Your people are there greatest legacy and would be proud of your achievements. Also these little guys might be something never seen before. Take good care of them.

Well we have a ton of things to get done and lots of theories to try out. Now that you are the Savior your new powers are a huge unknown to us. Will have a lot of experimenting to do.

But for now hug your kids close and chat with your friends. We can start working after everyone has time to digest things and get ready for the next step.

Maybe Iso can tell everyone what living in Paradise was like.

I HAVE AN IDEA.

Remember when Savior teleported Glitcher's shell away? Like 50% of Glitcher's core mass was there, and dispersed. The guardian did not come pick up the dispersed core, which... should still be there, in a dispersed state. Make a big hollow sphere of shell material around the area, and shrink it. It should condense the core, right? Hopefully it will still be the same type of core Glitcher was, and will act as a beacon for his consciousness. You should work on that in secret. Don't give anyone false hope in case it fails.

>>745767
Now is a good time to cry.

>>745769
Yeah, seconded on the "now is a great time to cry" part. Best to get it out of your system now that you have the opportunity to properly grieve.

You really are the best Rulekeeper.

So hug those kids and sing them a song. And tell them about there dad and how great he was.

And once you are ready get together your war council and start planning. We have a cycle to save and a Glitcher to bring back.

I feel like you should thank Alison for asking Glitcher to talk to you, at some point. Maybe too intimate for the group, but it made a big difference to both of you that she did that.

>Alison's reaction
That's... kind of sad. Their experiences mean it can't hit them the same way it hits you. You can't grieve with them to relieve your burden as much as you might have hoped.

>If I have a tombstone, my epitaph should be 'whoops'.
Go ahead and put a whoops-stone somewhere in the sanctuary. If you're going to be a god now, you may as well have your eccentricities.

>I really should decide on names for you too. Although I don't know if you can hear or feel me.
Shouldn't you wait till they hatch or wake up, or whatever they're going to do? Most parents don't name kids till after they're born, and these ones seem like they're still cooking. Assuming they aren't duds.

>You are. You're the best.
You were the best to me, Glitcher.

>Smuggler
Hey, you should give him shop privileges again. He lost merchant when the system deleted all skills.

I mean it won't do much since there's no CU stockpiling anymore and Shopkeeper has only been selling specific items per puzzle, but it would make him happy.

...hey do you know what CU stands for now.

>>745769
Not the worst idea. Between the remains scattered in the Sanctuary, and from the 2% bubble in cycle whereever we left it, there should be 52% of a Glitcher core in shattered dust to collect. We probably can't get him back just by piling it up together, but it's a starting point.

If you're capable of something analogous to crying, you might want to try it, but I don't know if you are. Organic creatures cry to literally squeeze out some of the chemicals in their brains that make them sad, or whatever emotion their tears are for, and I don't know if you'd have any sort of similar function - you probably have enough raw thinking power that grief could occupy quite a large part of your mind without seriously affecting you. You could imitate the appearance of crying, I'm sure, but it likely wouldn't have the same effect. The minds of everyone in here appear to be loosely based off how organic minds work, but there are limits, and some differences.

What I can feel reasonably sure about is that you became accustomed to Glitcher's presence. He was available to you constantly, for a long time, and he would have become part of how you got used to being able to interact with the world. For some time, until you can adapt again, you will probably find yourself thinking of him often. The pathways in your mind will still be assuming and expecting him to be here, and finding them surprised or even shocked when they realize that he isn't. It will be uncomfortable and awkward, and emotionally painful, as if you had lost an important piece of your functionality. It will get better, over time, though it may be a very long time indeed until the effect fades completely. But you are smart, and capable, and you have people around you who have gone though the same thing. It might help to talk about Glitcher to people, and to think about him, so that you can effectively try to inform your mind and memories that he is no longer here.

Was that all of the letter, or did you just stop at the point where it said you were the best?

>children's names

Hmm. When there was just one, we would have called them Glitchkeeper. I suppose we could still refer to them as that as a pair, "the glitchkeepers", but they'll need their own names, too. We might want to see what they're like when they're more developed before we do that. I see the eggs are different colors, I assume purple was the second one?

Names... contestants have either named themselves or been named based on appearance or actions. However, since the names seem to be the same from cycle to cycle it's possible that names are an intrinsic part of each contestant and will pop up even if there's no clear reason for it. Or maybe names are assigned based on the first cycle that contestant is present in, and carry through into future cycles. That reminds me, is Historian really new? Did he not exist in previous cycles?

Can you tell what gender each one is? How about if the white one is a girl we can call her Lily, and if it's a boy, Sol. The purple one can be Violet or Inigo Montoya actually I can't think of any good boy names.

>>745767
>>745769
>>745772

My feels have taken critical damage and I think it's time to have a little (big) cry ...

As far as I could tell, Glitcher was all "Wing It" and then "Spend five thousand years winging it", so if he was on his death knell then whatever last-second schemes he had right before he digitally vaporized probably involve large clues and chaos that will last a long time but doesn't seem to have any semblance of a larger plot. Over the rest of your life, poke at stuff that seems inherently flawed or infected and you might get more messages or genetic code.

Also I vote the kids' names should be Sudo and CiDi. Because that is a thing.

Suggestion 2016/09/02(Fri)18:40 No. 745786 ID: ea2bfa

If you feel like getting into interesting, esoteric god names for the eggs, Abaddon might work for one of them while serving as a memorial to Glitcher. An angel often mistaken for a demon, who served good through dangerous methods. Just my two cents.

I don't think we should decide names now, but if people are going to start thinking of them I'd like to point out that the family tradition is for names that describe a thing they do, were intended to do or were believed to do.

>>745788
We don't know what they'll do, and we made them without intending them to do something specific.

I guess we could assume they're going to break the mold and do things unaccounted for by the system... well, the one with the hybrid shell will, most likely. We could call that one Rulebreaker. Or Rebel. The second one, who is barely changed from the normal Glitcher core, could be called Thrower (like, to throw an exception? EH? EHHHH?) or Junior, or Trickster, or Essence.

>>745788
I am going with no names for now let them gain their names like all the contestants did by picking them, or doing something to be called such.

1/2 Rulekeeper 2016/09/02(Fri)21:28 No. 745795 ID: d1f5f1
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As the new savior, or at least ruler of paradise... I should come up with another name for it. These terms do not sound nice to me anymore.

In savior's place, however, I do have new powers I should begin experimenting with. For the most part, the raw knowledge we gained was enough to go on for some experiments, as well as just random factoids that some contestants may find interesting.

'CU', for instance, originally referred to how well a contestant could think. They stood for 'computational units', and there was a finite amount to go around for the one trillion blobs, and they would get more and more and be able to think more clearly, more uniquely, and ultimately become fully sapient.

I do not know when, but this system turned into CU having less drive on how much they could think. It simply became money.

I give smuggler his shopkeep ability back. Shops around here sell food for tickets, which are gained from a variety of tasks, but they are stationary. Smuggler can be a roaming, wildcard shop.

>Is Historian really new? Did he not exist in previous cycles?
He has existed, although 'historian' is not always the term he's used.

>Which egg is which
The colorless one is the first egg, the second one is the glitcher colored egg.

I'll wait until they hatch until naming them. Perhaps, like most, they will either name themselves, or earn their names through initial actions.

>Can you tell what gender each one is?
No.

>Make a big hollow sphere around the area where Glitcher's core dispered
I will try this. To be sure that I catch all of his core, it will have to be enormous by this point, but it is possible.

>You are more than 1 thread thick, right?
Yes. Savior intentionally made his shell thin as a trap. While it is typical to only be comprised of a single thread, that thread is often layered over itself many times.

Everyone starts chatting, although some feelings are more tense than others. There is varying levels of grief, and I don't think there are many identical interpretations for it. As I hum to my kids, I watch them. Alison may not have been as broken up about Glitcher as I might have thought, considering that she must have been a long time with Glitcher. Even if he only spent one hour with her for every one thousand hours he didn't, the time she spent with him greatly outweighed the time I spent with him.

She recognizes how attached we had gotten, though, and she squeezes me. Eventually, I leave the eggs back with her.

Iso also speaks of paradise, but he says there is not much to say. Although Savior treated them as irrelevant, they were treated well and could move freely and were given activities to enjoy themselves with. However, those activities seemed hollow, and ennui ran through much of the populace.

2/2 Rulekeeper 2016/09/02(Fri)21:28 No. 745796 ID: d1f5f1
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Glitcher does not have a tombstone, but I will create a temporary, placeholder stone on top of a building few people go on. Although digging a hole and burying his shell seems like a functionless task, it may have a positive mental effect. I cannot bury his shell now even if I felt up to it, as I am currently using it as the netting in a haphazard but harmless attempt at collecting his dispersed core.

>Now is a good time to cry
But I cannot seem to.

I have seen people cry. It seems that our creators mimicked the emotion, but I do not know if I am capable. I may like to, as this seems like an ideal moment, but nothing appears to happen. I can grieve properly later.

We seem to be stepping on lines that our creators may not like, and I do not know how long until they notice things. I may wish to reduce the number of active people in the stadium, as the processing power may be split. Still, one million was near insignificant, and the additional few millions from the paradise may not be particularly bad, either. It's difficult to tell.

Although I can control paradise from afar, my conscious only is able to occupy one entity at a time.

After I deliver Savior's message, my primary tasks for the moment, provided I am not missing anything, are either to experiment with the paradise's powers, or go into the veil to see what I can do, if anything, there. Perhaps get Mittens onto my side.

Something tells me that using your powers may have an effect on the eggs. Do that other thing.

Corruptor's log mentions the savior being able to legitimize his corruption. Can you figure out what that means? Apparently it's necessary for beating the CAI, so it should probably be put on high priority.

Yeah, head into the veil. They'll probably think you're with Savior again, but they also probably won't attack you anyway. Is there any way we can prove that we've ousted Savior? Maybe they could send one of their contestants to the paradise to confirm it.

>>745796
Experiment a little. Like for ten minutes. We should probably talk to Mittens about what happened to Glitcher real soon just in case there's something he can do. He might know something else of importance.
Also we gotta check out veil block 2, and maybe investigate a few other interesting past cycles- King seemed to be able to get to the Upper Echelon... was that just him advancing through the administrator's stage 11? Or was that him as a contestant simply going through the gate to the CAI Fight? Or is it something new and interesting? We should check to see where the admins go at the end of stage 11 regardless.

As for the stadium, if you want to appease the researchers outside you shouldn't worry about that. What you should be worried about is advancing the stages at a rate close to what they expect. Considering how many stages went by before they went below a billion AIs, I'd say stage 8 has only been running for a few seconds at most. If you're really worried you could slow down time in the stadium.

As for Paradise, let's start calling it Sanctuary, with Corruptor's permission. It is what he was trying to create back then, yet not corrupted. Also this time you should allow residents to build their own structures and design their own games. Make a new planet where everything is as realistic as possible, so that people can tame the wilderness via their own power. Send people there in groups, geographically separated. They can compete to have the most successful settlements! Also allow people to "die" which just teleports them back to the main Sanctuary planet, where they have to wait for the next wilderness to be created.

>>745795
Glitcher's message to Radmin was, "Wow you're a big jerk!" I'm finding that funnier than it should be! XD

You can't force emotions so now is not the time to grieve for you. Just be prepared if it hits you at a odd moment.

I would learn some of your new powers before you go searching the veil. Convincing Mittens to help would go much quicker if you can help his friends faster. Plus you will learn more info with more abilities that you can use to inspect things.

Here are a few things to focus on learning.

1. Corruptor had a plan to have Alison get Savior to "purify" his powers. Then he could make permanent changes to the system that would not be rejected. Some of the larger systems we depended on like the logs are a result of him managing to change things just at the last moment of a cycle before Savior could reverse them. Can you do something similar?

2. Glitcher left you a pile of logs from previous Glitchers eaten by the ring shell. Can you assign some people to start learning that language? Maybe get a few science minded types in a lab stage and time compress there efforts? Also what did those log say?

3. Investigate the Quarantine area that Savior used to store Corruptor skeletons. Where is it and does it have special properties?

4. Savior knew his powers better than anyone. Can you freeze time for him and search through his memories to learn stuff? Be very careful if you do though.

5. There was a second Veil structure. After you deal with Mittens it would be good to find out its story.

6. If you are worried about processing power maybe shift more contestants to Paradise. It seems to have its own rules and with Savior having a stick up his ass about stuff he would not dare to take in enough people to bother the system. Might be worth a look.

7. You had a link with Glitcher through your tooth that we never fully understood. And for a short while so did Corruptor. Finding out how the "quantum" stuff worked will be important. Can you feel anything from that link now? Maybe try to focus on it hard and see if you get any response from anywhere.

8. Figuring out how Cores work and if your new powers can affect them would be hard with no cores to test. Luckily you have Corruptor who is full of the stuff. Doing careful (and nice) experiments on him might give you insights into what happened to Glitcher and how the ring shell does stuff. Learning how to manipulate core material will be vital if you can figure out a way to reassemble Glitcher.

9. Inspect the Guardians location now that its gone. Find out if that area is special. Does it only show up there? Is there a weak point that you could use later? And what happened to the string material that got left inside the ring shell? The system was busy pushing out the rest of it so normally its not designed to be in there. See if you can find that left over hunk of strings and inspect it for signs of what the ring shell did to it.

10. The Veil dust is a rather unique material. Finding out if you can recreate it or if its something outside normal rules would be nice to find out. Even if we can never use it for anything learning more about its origins might give us a lead.

11. Learn more about how the Admin's send there petitions to the "upper management" Possibly have your new admin team ask for something really simple that would get granted quick and then be ready to watch what happens closely with all your new senses.

Oh and when visiting Mittens bring some familiar faces. Corruptor and Alison should help. Is probably best to not go alone for a lot of these things.

Having a Glitcher sidekick might be useful for experimentation, and Mittens is the oldest Glitcher you know of. Plus you really should help the veil dwellers with their corruption problem.

Take the Corruptor along with you and head to the veil.

Rewrite "In memory of Glitcher" "whoops"as

"hello its me the glitcher"
"i died"
"whoops"

A long while back (Safe Zone 7 I think) Saviour mentioned he had seen the real world, now that you control Paradise can you tell if there was some truth behind it or if it was all talk?

Also, wasn't the first egg a red-ish colour? Did it change at some point?

Other things to do: start wearing a widow's veil, put flowers on the grave.

Examine your own emotional state. Did you feel different immediately after taking over Paradise? I find myself wondering if Savior's problem will now be your problem- a lack of empathy. It could be that being part-stage hampers the function of the AI code involving emotions.

>Perhaps, like most, they will either name themselves, or earn their names through initial actions.
Inb4 they become the new Skullbash and Bodyslam.

>>745795
What's up with Radmin's letter. Did Glitcher make it so it evaporated as soon as he tried to read it as a prank? Or is it doing something else?

>rename the paradise
Your Domain, maybe? Or... it could be your "Rubric", if we want something a little punny.

>I do not know if I am capable. I may like to, as this seems like an ideal moment, but nothing appears to happen. I can grieve properly later.
Weird AI coding or capabilities aside, emotions can be complicated. Sometimes it hurts too much to cry. You might just be made numb by all of it right now. It might be too soon. You might be trying too hard to keep yourself together, since so many people are depending on you as a god now, and you feel you have to live up to the role Glitcher left you.

>We seem to be stepping on lines that our creators may not like, and I do not know how long until they notice things.
Savior once told Alison he'd seen the outside world, and she wouldn't like it. If he wasn't being a lying lieface again, that may mean he had access to some kind of peephole to the outside world. Maybe you should look for that?

>my primary tasks for the moment, provided I am not missing anything, are either to experiment with the paradise's powers, or go into the veil to see what I can do, if anything, there. Perhaps get Mittens onto my side.
I would put doing something for the baby-Glitcher in orbit around the not-paradise to be higher up on the list. They've been isolated and propagandized and they have to be scared by all the stuff that just happened. That can't be good for Glitchers. You should say something to them, maybe set some new rules, give them tvs they can control instead of ones that manipulate them, maybe see about socializing them with people, although that might take supervision.

Did the Savior leave himself any logs? Out of paranoia of memory loss, or Corruption?

>get Mittens onto my side

Throw Alisons at him.

>Dealing with paradise glitchers

Throw Alisons at them. Though some of them are kind of messed up so maybe you'd want to arrange some sort of protection for normal contestants interacting with them.

1/3 Rulekeeper 2016/09/03(Sat)13:27 No. 745875 ID: d1f5f1
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>What's up with Radmin's letter?
The letter melted upon hitting Radmin's hands, sticking to them. While trying to get the letter off, they formed a message.

>Also, wasn't the first egg a red-ish colour?
Yes, it faded back into a gray.

>Did you feel different immediately after taking over Paradise?
I haven't felt normal, but this could just be because of the scenario. I do not feel different, but at no point since taking over paradise has my environment been stable, so I am having trouble getting back to my baseline.

>Where is the quarantine area, and does it have special properties?
Simply as part of the normal space, similar to a moon orbitting the planet that is paradise.

I just recalled that Engineer left with Mathematician right away to go inspecting the speech that glitcher left. I go to him, after thinking of how to improve the tombstone once it becomes more than a placeholder.

"Hello, Engineer, Mathematician."
>"Hi. I assume you're hear for news on the translation?" Engineer says. Mathematician keeps working on something, and lets Engineer do the talking.
"Yes."
>"It's translatable, but complex. Not just is it another language, but it seems like they're encrypted for reasons I'm not sure about, and attempting to decode them takes time."
"Would it go faster if you had more people?"
>"Yes, it - oh. I should have asked for that. Yes, if you locate contestants that have an inclination for puzzles like this, I can teach them what I have learned. I'm sure there is a Linguist out there."
"I will."
>"One more thing."
"Yes?"
>"I'm certain that the ring shell is moddable. I do not know how yet, but it must be."
"I presumed so, but you have a reason in mind?"
>"Morse code."
"Go on."
>"We speak the same language as our creators, or at least a language they understand. At first, the ring shell seemed like it might have been a different language, and it is. But he understood morse code as we do, despite that it's simply a different way of communicating each letter, but otherwise is precisely the same language that Glitcher seemed to lose. We all learned morse code from the creator's introduction to books down here, so it must be in their language. I have a few guesses as to why this might be, but almost all cases, and all likely ones, point to the creators introducing morse code into the ring shell in the hopes that blocks could understand each other, in the further hopes that a CAI could look inside its own brain, so to speak."
"This may be valuable. Please continue your studies, then, and I will introduce a team for you."

2/3 Rulekeeper 2016/09/03(Sat)13:27 No. 745876 ID: d1f5f1
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>And what happened to the string material that got left inside the ring shell?
It was pushed back out into our universe as a nondescript clump of blank string. I have signs that it will be reclaimed as material in the next cycle. It was wiped of all info and purpose, but is otherwise intact.

I check corruptor. He still has his tooth, and I believe its pair is inside of the second egg. I may see if the upper echelon is willing to create a second. I was thinking that these wrestling games were not necessary to finish since Glitcher and I put a loyal interim team on the job in the meanwhile, but I have realized that using the terminals for upper echelon requests is a skill of its own. Putting in proper administration may assist in this.

With Corruptor's permission, I rename the paradise to the sanctuary, where I travel to review Glitcher's copies of savior's strings for ideal ways to test new powers. I carefully slip glitcher's letter to the savior through the veil. Savior makes no apparent reaction. The veil is an odd substance and also requires testing, since the guardian did not appear to leave any veil or residue in his wake. The veil seems active around savior, and it seems like it might be trying to attack him. It is possible that after I took over his position, his core is no longer recognized as a legal entity, and so the veil is no longer benign to him.

The other glitchers have been informed about my takeover. I begin to ask them about themselves, and it seems like most of them simply wanted to go away. Either because they were tired of everything, or because they did not trust themselves to their powers. I have a feeling that savior only picked up glitchers like this, who simply did not have the mentality to be a threat to him. Ones that became less docile, such as the one that ambushed Glitcher and I, were often sent to die in some manner or another.

I've noticed that when Savior's avatar returned to his paradise, paradise itself seemed to put the avatar's experience into its own strings. As a result, Savior, in his paranoia, tended to wash his avatar's strings of any sensitive data prior to returning, as he did fear that otherwise the glitchers would learn the truth about many things. Therefore, I lack much information, such as his knowledge of the real world, and the idea of legitimizing corruptor. Perhaps he had faith that he could remember these things on his own memory's merit, and so I may want administration help on for pleas to the upper echelon to figure out these topics.

After speaking to the glitchers, I inform them that their television sets will be cleansed of any savior propoganda, but they seem apathetic to the idea they were being fed it in the first place. Many of them even knew, and don't trust me to be much different. Nonetheless, I give them a few channels, which will include the wrestling games as well as a few side channels showing the public areas of the stadium area, where I say that I may slowly introduce them to more people if they wish to rejoin a living society. An additional channel will be made to view the sanctuary itself.

To softly test the sanctuary's capabilities as its own parallel to a contest, I will allow the everyone to go back to the Sanctuary, where they will be able to form their own societies and build their own buildings. They can die, but it will simply teleport them to a safe zone in the sanctuary, where they can travel to and from the stadium. Everyone will be assured that this is an experiment, but will be treated as a low stakes game for those who are interested.

It will not be a true beginning of cycle, either, but I think I have the power to initiate it if I decide to, although it will rend the existing objects apart, as they are not considered any part of a real cycle currently. If I did, however, I may be able to begin a cycle in customized ways. I may have the capability of making Alisons from scratch, for instance. Or if we find a contestant who has a remarkable knack for interpreting glitcher's machine language, then make a clone army of them.

3/3 Rulekeeper 2016/09/03(Sat)13:29 No. 745877 ID: d1f5f1
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With Alison and corruptor, I head into the 2200 veil block. Using the same means of propelling ourselves through space, I am able to move the veil, but it is too difficult to constantly blow it out of the way to accomodate Corruptor. To attempt to do so only makes me appreciate just how absurdly skillful Glitcher was.

However, I am able to form a sphere made out of regular cycle string to protect him, and then cut through the veil normally to propel us through it safely.

The sphere hits the veil's outer warning net as we go through, and Mittens teleports to us.

>"Oh hey, uh, Rulekeeper right?"
"Yes."
>"Hey Corruptor, hey Aauuuuhhhhhhlisonnnn?."
>"Yes, hello!" Alison says. "It's nice to meet you." she says, shaking Mitten's mitts.
>"Right I knew other Alisons had a snake lower body but I never saw one in person."
"Hello, you must be mittens?" asks Corruptor.
>"Glitcher. The name is Glitcher. Uh... so this is an Alison huh?"
>"Yes! Am I not what you expected?"
>"More like... oh, nevermind. Well, go on then, convince me to help you out since you clearly need it."

Pretty please will you help us out?

Do you mind showing us around the place? We never got a chance to look over things last time we were here. And with our Glitcher "temporarily" misplaced after we dealt with Savior we could use your expertise. Skilled Glitchers such as yourself are hard to find.

I know you can't leave because your friends need you but I might be able to help you out with fixing them if they have been corrupted badly over the years.

Well, we usurped Savior because he was a lying, egotistical shell of a man who killed our Glitcher, and we needed his powers anyways. You didn't seem to like him, so you should be happy about that.

Also, with your permission, we're planning on cleansing the contestants here of there corruption and offering them new real estate opportunities in the cycle 3119 wrestling arena and the Sanctuary (formerly known as Paradise), if anybody here would like the chance to interact with other people.

Oh, and we have more power and information on ways we could conceivably escape the system than anybody's ever had before and likely a limited amount of time to use it before the system decides something's wrong and starts up a new archcycle, so having a skilled Glitcher on our side right now would be quite helpful.

>Yes, if you locate contestants that have an inclination for puzzles like this, I can teach them what I have learned. I'm sure there is a Linguist out there.
If it would help, we could have a think-tank of Maths and Engineers from other cycles helping.

But yeah there has to be someone who took an interest in languages, despite the communication skill kinda superseding them.

>Well, go on then, convince me to help you out since you clearly need it.
(I assume we're speaking for Alison at this point, since she's the diplomatic one).

Well, Rulekeep at least can help you clean up the Corruption in here so the people in here have it easier. Since there's another version of me and my friends in here, there's no reason not to help them! (This is a freebie, whether or not he helps us otherwise).

Give him a Snake hug, he must not have ever had one if his Alison has legs.

And, uh, Rulekeep and our Glitcher and Corruptor kind of went and desposed Savior so he's not really a threat to you anymore? ...and we couldn't keep the Ring Shell from getting our Glitcher, so he can't help with his kind of thing anymore.

...you could also offer to let him read your strings, so he can see you're not lying about what cycle you're from, or that there are other cycles still happening outside the veil that aren't the paradise.

Rulekeep: Yes I am literally Savior now.

Oh and please don't break her avatar, we don't know if the Guardian summoning carried over, and we don't want to find out the hard way.

>>745876
>Savior censored his data from Paradise's strings
What about his core, though? You looked inside of that other Glitcher in order to read his mind and history. Can you do the same to Savior and read directly from his core? Or is taking a Glitcher apart the way you read data from their strings?

>it will rend the existing objects apart
Can't do that right now, then. We've got Savior's prison to worry about, as well as Glitcher's core net. Creating clones is immoral anyway, if they don't just combine afterwards or something. Too much of an existential nightmare- I mean, remember how Shopkeep reacted to finding out he was split between all the brackets?

>>745877
Well this should be easy, actually. He's trying to preserve his friends here, right? He should understand that we want to do the same thing, but with everyone. Every cycle. Will he help realize the dream of his fellow Glitcher, who died taking such great leaps towards that goal?

"Glitcher, there are several glitchers around now, we cannot simply call all of you glitcher, and we were and are very attached to our glitcher, the one you met before, so there is little hope of us not thinking of him as "the" glitcher. That monster thing did catch up to him, by the way, but this time we managed to learn a lot and we have hopes of getting him back eventually, which could mean maybe getting yours back eventually as well. If you do not like Mittens then please pick something distinct to yourself that we can call you, and we will think of glitcher as your family name."

"Now, the first thing we would like from you is to somehow earn a bit of trust from you, since I think you are probably still suspicious. So, to earn trust, we should show trust. For a start, I am not a normal contestant. I am a system entity that was summoned by the admins to counter our glitcher, Alison persuaded me to switch sides, and I and our glitcher mutually opened up to each others' exploration, causing us to merge a little a gain extra powers. In addition to that, after we last met you we assaulted Savior's paradise and usurped him. I have his powers now, and the percentage of him left is imprisoned in a small bubble. Also, our glitcher and me tried to make children. You are going to be an uncle, congratulations. If you like, we will tell you everything that happened, or if you prefer and she is willing, you could just read our Alison's strings to see her history. Or, if you prefer, since you seemed willing to follow a string out of this area before, we could simply show you what's outside."

"I would also ask, then, if there is anything you want. I am capable of repairing corruption without resorting to cycle resets, and I have hopes I could help you with that, though I haven't tackled this scale before. Perhaps, since we have our own fresh Alison here, we could meet your Alison and compare the two of them? And, if yours is willing, I could see what I can do for her, if anything seems necessary or desireable."

Ok had a idea for making things run smoothly.

You need to recreate what was going on in the original Corruptors Sanctuary on the new one. Get Arbitor and the other house leaders and have them help you build a new society there.

You can drop one of the city safe zones on Sanctuary and have that be the starting point. Re institute the CU system for a currency and let people earn it by doing stuff like they were before. People can build roads and farm food and slowly settle the "wilderness" on the Sanctuary world.

So people will have things to keep them occupied and enjoying themselves and motivation for improving there skills. Like say put a bounty on de-encrypting part of the ring shell language with a high CU reward. Any big project that will need lots of minds you can put forth incentives to attract new people who might not otherwise be interested. Can hire people to set up a university/school to train contestants in new skills.

At the top end you could let people spend CU for luxury items and such that they could not yet build themselves. With the idea of eventually phasing that stuff out and having a small living world on the Sanctuary zone.

As for keeping the numbers of active people down you could have a gate to the ghost zone for anyone who was tired of things and just wanted to sleep. You could store them there with the promise of return once we got free of the cycles and no longer had to worry about using to much processing power. And people could go there to visit sleeping friends if they wanted to.

>>745893

This is a good idea. If we are going to fight the Cai or escape or whatever ends up happening we need everyone working for a common goal instead of fighting up the stages backstabbing each other. And making a proper long lived society would be a good start.

Once it gets going could we time compress the Sanctuary to help things move along?

It makes sense that if the Ring shell can talk in morse code that it will be encrypted. Otherwise could accidentally take commands from anything and everything that happened to randomly beep and boop at it. Reverse engineering how it accepts input will be tricky so should prioritize getting that team together.

So tell Mittens a short version of what happened and inform him that he is now probably the most senior Glitcher around. We would love for him to join us but it's his decision to make. Either way we would like to help fix his contestants and stabilize this veil world.

>>745893
Not sure if the old Sanctuary was the best model. It was basically a reflection of the allied factions that made it up, which left a lot of power to the house leaders, and sharp differences in how people inside houses were treated.

I mean, on the one hand, the sheer numbers of people we'd deal with in bringing everyone back would require breaking people into smaller groups, but I don't see fostering competition over unity, or unequal standards, to be a good thing.

Why don't we see how the people in the wrestling village handle themselves for now? Maybe something will grow organically?

...how many residents were there in the paradise cum sanctuary?

We should put off decisions about what the population of the sanctuary's going to be until we have all the facts. It's going to be a very big question, and a difficult one, depending on whether we need to keep an appearance of the cycles going (probably), how much reality will be in that appearance, who needs to be in the sanctuary and how we can justify ourselves to people who don't, et cetera.

We need to know what we're capable of, first, and what our needs will be.

If the logs can be trusted, one whole cycle takes three real-world days. If there's some automatic tracking that will inform someone the next time they check in, it's already too late, but if some real world entity needs to come check on how things are going with us, we probably have some time. We're relatively late in the cycle and could likely experience months or years in here before whatever person in the real world gets off their lunch break or whatever. Given that the ring shell is so impermeable and they don't even know enough to realize we're sentient in here, they may not know anything except whatever records get dumped out when the cycle ends and restarts.

>>745877
How about we go halfway and call you Mitch?

>>745877
If you can help us we can try to un-corrupt some of your folks.
Perhaps we can interest you in Alison hugs?

1/3 Rulekeeper 2016/09/04(Sun)15:10 No. 746061 ID: d1f5f1
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>What about looking into Savior's core for information?
This is possible, but looking into a core is far more subjective than looking at strings, the latter of which closely resembles a book.

>Running Sanctuary Games
Although it will be simple to begin with, I will be including aspects to help root out people who will make a good thinktank. While Mathematician and Engineer are unusual, they are also just ones Alison came across out of innumerable stage ones.

>How many residents in the sanctuary?
A couple of million or so.

"Before that, Mittens, would you be willing to let me assist you in cleaning this area of corruption?"
>"Define 'clean'. And Glitcher!"
"Reorganizing the confused strings, instead of shaving them off. You can bring your Alison, here, and we can compare. I would at least like to look around the place."

Alison steps in, too.
>"I don't know how attached to your home you are, but I'm sure Rulekeeper is willing to either fix the landscape here, too, or to show this cycle's contestants to the other cycles."
>"Geez." says Mittens. "You are half snake."
>"I am. It's what feels natural!"
>"Yeah. Uh..."

There's an awkward silence.

"Our glitcher died." I tell Mittens. "After killing savior, the resulting guardian that was summoned killed glitcher in response."
>"Oh... huh. Here I thought you just didn't bring him as a sign of trust. So I guess that happened. No joke, though? Savior's gone?"
"Trapped, just in case what remains of his core is still valuable."
>"Well that's good. Geez this Alison is all tangible and speaks in complete sentences and everything."
>"Does yours not?" Alison says.
>"Not anymore but nothing wrong with that."
>"I guess not! I'm sorry, but the name 'glitcher' reminds us of the glitcher we've spent so long with. You don't have to be called Mittens if you don't want to, but glitcher already has a spot inside of us."
>"Well it doesn't seem like much of a spot if he's so dead does it?"

Another silence.

>"Uh okay." Mittens continues. "If getting called glitcher is gonna have a response like this then nevermind. In fact I'm starting to think of myself as Mittens anyway."
"I would like us to work together. Motivated glitchers, ones that can spend thousands of years training, are rare. You are probably the most senior one, now. I should let you know I am not a normal contestant, I am created from administrators who -"
>"Okay don't care. You brought Alison and I've seen into enough past cycles to see right where this is going?"
>"Hug?" Alison asks.
>"You fuckin' know it." Mittens says. "Use the tail, may as well get the unique hug. "Yeah, like that." He stays still for a few moments. "So that's a hug from a stable snakison huh? It's alright I guess. 18k was crazy into this, so I've got to accept it on his behalf. Okay let's go see my Alison and you can test your stuff Rulekeeper."

2/3 Rulekeeper 2016/09/04(Sun)15:10 No. 746062 ID: d1f5f1
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He teleports all of us over to a large hut, where Alison is currently staring at the edge of a window.

>"Hey Alison I brought Alison." says Mittens.
>"... Hilison." says their Alison.
>"Hello?" says ours.

Mittens sighs before speaking.

>"Anyway Alison, Alison by the window I mean, I also brought someone named Rulekeep?"
>"I'd like to meet them."
>"Right here, Alison."
>"Oh. Hello!" she says, still staring forward.
>"Alison, we're over here." Mittens waves.
>"I see you!"
>"Oh I didn't know you got eyes in the back of your head! That's really weird."
>"I see you!"
>"No, you... you don't. You're not... looking."
"Mittens. I can cleanse them of corruption, but that will just prevent further damage. Returning them to how they were with 100% accuracy is impossible. I can make them whole, again by taking strings from their counterparts in other cycles and using that to repair their parts."
>"Can't you rewind or something?"
"Rewinding is just playing the strings in reverse, and with damaged data, it will only worsen things. I do not have a perfect solution."
>"Sheesh you make it sound like this isn't a normal feeling Alison that I've kept together over... tens of thousands of cycles."

3/3 Rulekeeper 2016/09/04(Sun)15:11 No. 746063 ID: d1f5f1
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Mittens sighs again.

>"Well what the hell's the point of cleaning them up if they can't be perfect? There's a few thousand other Alisons that should be close approximations, I may as well just bring one of them over if it's gonna be like that. I don't want this Alison to change. Just clean up the corrupted parts so that it doesn't get any worse. If that works, and you do it to everyone, I guess I can leave."

>>746063
If that's what he really wants, then that is what we will do.

However, what about what the contestants themselves want? Even if their brains are messed up, they should have some understanding of what we're offering.

This will be a good chance to practice restoring long term corruption changes. Will help for the second Veil and possibly for other stuff later on. Glitcher got as good as he did by constantly practicing his craft. If you want to match him you will have to do the same.

Plus if we do get the chance to reassemble our Glitcher you want to make sure you can put him back together perfectly. Strings might be different from core material but practice here should overlap for later projects.

I would save Alison for last and go practice on some simple stuff like buildings first. Then work your way up in complexity until you get to some of the worst hit contestants.

While working on them see if memories have been overwritten or if stuff has just become unlinked over time. Are they missing big parts of what made them people? Or is it still there just stuck underneath a bunch of corrupted strings. Check to see if you can compare any absorbed copies that other contestants have and see if you can pull info from there own backups or the ghost lands. Then will not have to use other cycles to fill in the blanks.

They might be a mess right now but remember that the system has a ton of backups hidden on a deeper level for anyone made of strings.

It looks like he is rather attached to his Alison. So do your very best to fix her without changing what made her special to him.

This is your best chance to make a good impression on Mittens. He seems to be rather attached to his Alison. Maybe they had a relationship much like Glitcher did with our Alison.

Or maybe they had something more going on and he is really hurting inside.

So make sure you do your absolute best to fix her. Go practice for awhile on other stuff before working on Alison. Maybe you can fill in blanks in one contestant with memories the other ones have about them?

Imagine if you had Glitcher's core in front of you and had just one chance to put him back together correctly. You would make damn sure you had tons of practice before you started right?

Let's not give up so quickly, Mittens. Besides, to be frank, it should be your Alison's decision as to whether she wants to be restored, even if imperfectly.

We may not be able to restore all of her perfectly, but we could restore parts of her perfectly. Some of what she seems to be missing now are some basic functions that all contestants have. During our contest, Rulekeeper summoned several Alisons from previous cycles, and they should still be in ghost storage. Including our Alison and Glam Alison, that should be, what, six Alisons? If we look at all of them, we should be able to see some elements that we can say, with some certainty, that all Alisons always have. We can start by restoring those, and perhaps that will restore enough awareness to this Alison that she can make her own decision on what she wants us to do for her further.

I would also ask what you've done with the corrupted strings you've been cleaning off. Have you kept them stored neatly, organized, in hopes that you could somehow put them back? This could be the moment for that. Or did you dump them all in a big trash pile? Well, we have a number of young unemployed glitchers, some of them may want, after their rehabilitation, to be useful while also practicing their string manipulation, and digging through a trash heap to sort out what strings belonged to who might be it.

Also, is everyone here like this? What about your Corruptor, did I hear you mention you had one?

Also also, what about your cycle reset? I gather it doesn't do much to restore things any more, but does it have any positive effect at all? Preserving them from degradation at an early-cycle stage might be better than preserving them in this state. Plus it might be useful for us to observe the cycle reset process, even if it's one that's been sealed away and had its full functionality locked off.

...oh! What about the earlier, inactive cycles in here? Shouldn't they have data on this Alison, and the other contestants?

>I can cleanse them of corruption, but that will just prevent further damage. Returning them to how they were with 100% accuracy is impossible. I can make them whole, again by taking strings from their counterparts in other cycles and using that to repair their parts.

>Well what the hell's the point of cleaning them up if they can't be perfect? There's a few thousand other Alisons that should be close approximations, I may as well just bring one of them over if it's gonna be like that. I don't want this Alison to change.

Alison should hug vacant-Alison there. If there's anything even a brain damaged Alison should understand, it's hugs.

Alison: They're your friends, Mitte- Glitcher. They mattered to you. And people always matter. There's always a point. You wouldn't have kept them going this long if you didn't care.

If... we're really going to try putting our Glitcher back together some day, maybe this guys make good practice? Trying to figure out how to fix the damage without just copying stuff from other people to make these guys new people can't be any harder than putting him back together will be.

Of the top of my head, we might try mining stage strings for recorded memories of stuff the contestants experienced. We also might try filling in the damage with blank strings (say, some of the stuff left over from the Guardian fight?) so the damaged contestants can naturally grow into / imprint themselves onto the repaired areas, instead of transplanting stuff from other people. If the basic personality stuff is damaged, we might be able to tap into the blank templates that are used to generate the people at the start of each cycle. With some fresh Alison-stuff, and what remains of her own memories, she should be closer to herself than if they borrowed modified Alison stuff from ones who've been around for a while.

You met some other yous before. You were all very similar, but it was kind of surprising how much your outlook could change in little ways. Glitcher / Mittens is right- we should try and make these people themselves.

>and I can leave
What about the other people in here? Didn't he say there was still a Corruptor or two in here? If they're anything like ours, they won't take well to being left alone if he's still in contact with them.

Wow, what a depressing place to live. It's like everyone he knows has Alzheimer's or something. I think Mittens needs some more hugs.

Maybe you can restore the parts of her that deal with how she perceives the world from other Alisons, but leave her memories and personality untouched. That way she will at least be able to interact with the world normally, even if she's not quite all there.

The obvious approach is to perform a copypaste of our Alison to Mittens' Alison for spare parts, but Mittens would have tried that already. There must be some incompatibility problem or a surgery risk.

How about this: if we can't put copied organs of Alison into the corrupted Alison, why not place the corrupted Alison in an Alison environment? Make her body adapt to our Alison and her personality. Combine that with any reactions and opinions that corrupted Alison has, and you could remake her to a close approximation.

>Well what the hell's the point of cleaning them up if they can't be perfect?
(Alison again) Did my sister here ever talk about saving everybody? Well, I believe in that too. And she's part of everybody. Everyone you've got in here is. Even if the people in here are hurt, even if there are more of us like them who are almost but not quite the same, they still deserve to matter.

Contestants who sleep seem to slowly get better with time. Has everyone here been sleeping well? How does sleeping even help anyway and would it help this level of damage?

1/3 Rulekeeper 2016/09/04(Sun)20:21 No. 746128 ID: d1f5f1
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>How does sleeping even help anyway and would it help this level of damage?
It was a stage 7 introduction. Typically strings will be sustained by the universe, but for stage 7, that cleaning cycle was turned off and they were allowed to decay.

"I will practice on others, first of all."
>"Prooobably a good idea actually."
"It is safe, otherwise, but I would like to be sure. However, it should be your Alison that makes a decision of if she wants to be repaired."
>"Well sure, but you gotta repair her in order to get her in a state of mind to say if it's acceptable, so we're kinda in a paradox."
"You said you had a corruptor, right?"
>"Two of 'em!"
"How are they?"
>"Uh, sane I guess? I mean they're at least immune to the corruption effects, but they, uh, neither of 'em do anything anymore. They locked themselves each in their own prison of solitude or whatever so minimize damages. Kind of extreme but that's how they do. They're about as loopy."
"Does a cycle reset have any positive effect?"
>"Well it doesn't have a negative one."
"It just occurred to me... there is one alternative. Your legitimate cycle 2202 seems clean. It should be able to have kept its records pure of others."
>"That's right at the beginning. That's like reverting all their memories!"
"Yes, this would be more like having contestants be reborn, but I can copy their memories and - "
>"Oh fuck no that is just as bad that's like weird fake memories lying to reborn people and it's just too weird "
"Mittens. You do not need to push to reject the idea, as it is only something that is possible. If nearly perfect is not perfect enough, then I will begin only the decorruption."
>"Yeah okay just remember there's a lot of history in this place! I don't want to rewind it like it never happened. I want to fix it going forward!"
"We can communicate our feelings later. I will now see what I can do for decorruption.

By the time we finish speaking, Alison 3119 has approached her counterpart. Veil Alison gives a strange hug back just by putting her hands on Alison 3119's back. She smiles, but the whole thing seems based more on muscle memory than not.

2/3 Rulekeeper 2016/09/04(Sun)20:21 No. 746129 ID: d1f5f1
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I begin my work. It goes smoothly. Buildings are put back together, and contestants with few relations are carefully put to the test. Interacting with corrupted objects can pass it on, however, and to truly save this place, I would need to fix everything, or at least everything that interacts with each other and quarantine the unclean objects.

I have not typically kept corrupted strings since I have not had to deal with strings beyond repair until now, but I will keep them to the side.

Mittens and both Alisons speak to each other. Mittens seems to be trying to get his Alison to hug like mine, before giving up and moving on to other contestants and comparing them. Apparently the glitcher places his own well being not just in his Alison, but in many of his old friends. His Alison did speak of saving everyone, although the veil Chief apparently took a more proactive role in making it happen. He initially overpowered Alison, but brought him onto her side as he was more willing to work to her goal. Chief was the one to get a house to call his in the sanctuary, and Alison was his diplomat to other houses. Gradually, she became the glue holding many of the factions together, but otherwise was less in a position of direct leadership.

Several glitchers were made, but Mittens was around the middle, and enjoyed hearing stories about how cycle 2202 got together and perpetuated the main contestants.

3/3 Rulekeeper 2016/09/04(Sun)20:21 No. 746130 ID: d1f5f1
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After Mittens approves of the changes I make, I decorrupt Alison.

>"Ah." she says. "What happened?"
"I have removed the corruption from your system."
>"Oh. Thank you, Keeper. Ah, I should go into the next stage, now. We can't keep it waiting."
"There is no longer a reason to keep going. Your cycles are done. You can stop."
>"No, no, we should keep moving forward! It's tough, but now's not the time to give up."
>"Dangit Alison!" Mittens interrupts. She's saying the cycles are done! We're finished. Cycles over." says Mittens.
>"Glitcher," says veil Alison, "I can see the safe zone timer, and there's only a couple hours! It's not so bad. Let's just buy our items and do stage 6 now."

The safe zone timer has been paused and is showing nothing.

The shopkeep collective no longer exists.

It is stage 4.

It is that bad.

>"It's... Mittens. My name is Mittens, now. Rulekeep... you can't do 100%, huh?"
"I can do incredibly close. I can make them whole."
>"But if they're different, I'll know. If you just shove other people - and it took me a thousand years to come to terms with the idea these Alison's are different people - into them to make them whole, I'll know! They won't be them. I, uh... didn't really think about it till you brought in a contestant on the other side, but, heh, I guess I kind of got carried away and took this dumb crazy idea a little farther than its lifespan should've been, didn't I."
>"It's admirable." says my Alison. "I thought our glitcher was the only one who had this kind of dedication."

She wouldn't be rulekeeper if she wasn't this meticulously accurate.

What are your options? Please label them on a flowchart with possibilities and results.

>Corruptor is just as loopy
That's weird. If the loop effect / corruption damaged peoples strings in some way, why would it hurt Corruptors? Their personality data should be stored in their cores, and strings are affected by corruption, not core-stuff.

Maybe it hurts the Corruptors to generate the loop effect? It might be draining them or something to fuel this.

Maybe we should check on one of them. Might give us more insight to this condition, if it affects string and core based entities.

>Rulekeep... you can't do 100%, huh?
>"But if they're different, I'll know. If you just shove other people
What if instead of borrowing strings from other people to fix them, we copied strings from the relatively clean cycle 2202 backup?

So then, instead of filling in what's missing with parts of different (almost the same) people and making them different, we fill in what's missing with pieces of their past selves? That's not making them fundamentally different people, or rewinding them all the way back to the start and making them forget everything or adding on false memories either. They'd be acting as organ donors for themselves, thanks to time travel.

It just means... they lose some memories. Not all. In the parts that are already broken. But that has to be a fair trade off to get back the part of themselves they lost, right? Because they're missing something important right now.

>I guess I kind of got carried away and took this dumb crazy idea a little farther than its lifespan should've been, didn't I.
You did everything you could for them. It wasn't a dumb idea, and it's not your fault you didn't have anyone else left to help you, or that it didn't work perfectly.

>>746130
Rulekeep won't be shoving other people into them. She'll be shoving themselves in. I mean can't we rewind the pure cycle a bit to collect the bits and pieces we need to patch these guys up? Based on how things worked from rewinding other cycles, the stage will emulate the erasure of... actually, come to think of it, because things work differently in here won't it outright create duplicate copies of the contestants when you rewind, since the cycle never erases their strings? Maybe we can't use data from the pure cycle without existential issues.

...hey, what about how the system deals with duplicate AIs? There's some kind of merging process that triggers on the next cycle.

Anyway, it's his choice. Either accept that his people might change but will survive in some form, or let them continue to exist in their current basically-nonfunctional form. If he grew to accept the changes from scraping off their corrupted strings, shouldn't it be a simple matter to accept the small change from bringing them back to full functionality? Well I guess there's a third choice. Accept that his friends will never come back, and allow them to die.

Oh, and you may as well check on the hermit Corruptors. Our Corruptor can instruct them on how to avoid corrupting things, so unless their state is somehow tied to the fate of this veil block, they can recover. Speaking of the veil block itself, can you clean up the ambient corruption? Or is that what's allowing the contestants to be copied over into the next cycle in the veil block? ...why are there 50k cycles in here, anyway? Are they going through cycles faster somehow?

Who was that sitting on the ledge behind Guardsman?

You did the best with the resources you had Mittens. Without a system counterpart like me it could not have been easy to keep things this stable. I know that if they were in there right minds your friends would understand that.

So give him his options. We can fix them up the best we can but not quite perfect. Or we can repair them entirely by filling in the gaps from the closest versions of themselves. Or we can put them through the cycle reset but have there core memories in place right at the start so they get reborn. And whatever way he chooses you can offer to migrate everyone to the new Sanctuary if he likes. Or just get this place running smoothly. Also we should see if we can get the Corruptors out of there funk. Those poor guys can't be doing good.

Ask him if he would mind if you looked at his threads to read his memories of them. Maybe the trick to getting them fixed the last bit of the way is in his memories.

Once he has decided find out how this all got started. What trick did 18k and the corruptors and him do to get this area like this? Finding out what they did will give us insights into our options once the current cycle gets to the last stage.

Here is a thought. Do you think you could fix them all the way if Glitcher was here to help you? I mean if he was still around and you both worked together like before could you get them all the way to 100%?

It might feel odd and you certainly don't have to try if you don't like it but could you do more if Mittens helped you along the way?

Ask Mittens where the cut off point is. I mean he does not want them all the way back to the start but after how many cycles did they start to be not all there? Even if you could fix them 100% there memories would still have thousands of cycles of them being nearly brain dead.

I think the closest we could get to perfection would be to pick a cycle and cut off all there memories after that. Then imprint them on there newly reset selves.

There are two parts to what makes a person a person Mittens. The memories and the hardware those memories run on. As long as both of them match they would be the same people.

Ask our Alison what she thinks. Have her imagine if she was in the same situation and could snap out of it for a minute what would she tell us to do?

While she is not the same person she is the closest viewpoint we have.

And yeah keep a eye out for any Neumono contestants. For that matter anyone who matches any of the species we have seen in the pictures. We know what some of our creators look like and they might have hidden more clues under our noses.

Rulekeeper 2016/09/04(Sun)21:44 No. 746143 ID: d1f5f1
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>Do you think you could fix them all the way if Glitcher was here to help you?
There is just too much missing information. It would have to be interpolated. With Glitcher, we could get much closer to 100%, I'm sure, but unless he had a technique for this that never came up while I was around, it would still not be perfect.

>Why are corruptors loopy?
Although their cores may not be affected by string degradation, our personalities are not meant to be immortal. In contestant's case, even perfectly clean strings can build an unstable personality. For example, take a perfectly good set of ingredients to be cooked in boiling water. Stage 7 is the equivalent of introducing rot over time. Isolation or other poor environments are the equivalent of microwaving the ingredients, or some other method of cooking that is not the intended environment.

>Who was that sitting on the ledge behind Guardsman?
Pepper.

"You are against rewinding cycle 2202 to get the parts of them that they've lost, Mittens?"
>"Yeah. They're practically different people anyway! That is - I mean, Alison, would you consider yourself the same as the blob in front of 10 portals? Rulekeep, would you say you're the same as whatever you were when you were first brought by the admins? Considering what you're doing now, I doubt it!"
"I would think of this like donating organs."
>"Would it affect their memories?"
"The memories are a close part of their strings, and they are a packaged deal with their personalities. I can keep them, but I would have to combine the memories in with the donated organs, so to speak, and ultimately it would be like sorting out sand. I can do this. It may not be perfect, but at this point, they will regain much more of themselves while gaining a little bit of someone else, which seems like a good tradeoff compared to how much of themselves are lost right now. These are the two realistic choices I see, although the third would simply to accept your friends won't come back 100%, and allow them to die, which I doubt you... you're considering this?"
>"No. Nononono. Er, I was, but then I realized that it'd just be too dumb to let them die when they could at least be molded with their previous selves. I mean... they're not going to be the same and I really don't know if I can ever look at them the same, but at least there'll be some life to it, you know? So... yeah. That first thing. Rewind 2202, do it that way.'
"Okay. If you help me with the individual strings, we may be able to piece together them closer to 100%, so- "
>"No, I don't want close to 100%! I want either 100%, or I just want new people! People I know are different. I want to say goodbye to the people I know and say I'm gonna be friends with the new them, not pretend like they're 'close enough', okay? So just jam their newborn selves into their current selves I guess. Even if... ugh, this is weird as hell! Just, give me a moment, alright? I want to speak to my guys. And Alison. 3119 Alison I mean."

There were many options I could do, but it seems like talking to Mittens about them was enough to get him to make a decision. He does not appear to want to debate this any more.

"Alright. But, at some point, I would like to speak to you about there being tens of thousands of cycles, and what was done to get this to happen in the first place. Secondly, I am going to speak to your corruptors about the veil. There is a lot for me to learn here. Lastly for now, if you are willing, I would like to take a look at your core to look at."

Mitten's patience is out, so I leave the area. Several minutes pass, and I wait. One of the strings I had leading back out of the veil activates.

"Uh Rulekeep this is Sweatermouse and one of your eggs is starting to not be an egg anymore!"

>>746143
Leave a note that you had something urgent to take care of and you'll be back soon.

Then go say hello to your new baby!

>still not 100%
It's not like we have to rush into this. We don't have a time limit, and we can wait to try and figure out a better way to help them. We don't have to try something we think up in our first few minutes here.

If we really wanted to do the best reconstruction possible, we'd be examining each sub-cycle leading from the current one back to 2202. Presumably there'd be a little less damage with each step back, and you could rescue pieces from closer in the current timeline, right before they were lost, instead of going all the way back to the start.

Or we need a really good means for interpolating missing data from fragments. Treat it like a puzzle- from the pieces we have, how to we calculate exactly what else should be there?

>"Uh Rulekeep this is Sweatermouse and one of your eggs is starting to not be an egg anymore!"
The birth slash hatching of one of your kids is more important that debating how to help Mitten's friends right now, especially since we haven't gotten into it in earnest yet.

Leave a note explaining where you've gone, port out of the veil, and port home with Corruptor.

Alison will have to miss it, since she's busy helping Glitcher / Mittens come to terms with what he's doing.

>>746143
See if you can grab your Alison then just say something like 'Glitcher's Children are being born.'

Crap let Mittens and Alison know whats happening and get back home fast!

If they want to come drag them along.

Oh shit they're hatching hurry back before they declare sweeter mouse as their mom.

Unfortunately even if we can recover the exact data that would fit in the missing spots, that data would not have gone through the experiences all the other data went through. ...Rulekeep, can you do that? Say, take a pure 2202 cycle contestant then expose it to the memories in the strings in a way that emulates living out those experiences, so that the entire string-body adapts to the memories?
A metaphor here: say you have a statue you know is supposed to be purple, but some of it is missing and the only pieces you can get are white, and the purple color had changed over time so you'd have to color match to get something really close but not quite. Instead, you can get a white statue and paint it the original purple paint and age it to match what it should look like if it were whole.

It'd be like rewinding, but in reverse. Fastforwarding.

Quick gather up the gang and get back home. Am sure our Alison would like to be there for this so let her know.

Once Mittens is calmed down a bit tell him this.

We are not Humans or Belenosians or Neumono. Biological life regularly performs major surgeries to replace organs and limbs. They enhance themselves with cybernetic technology and even perform major brain surgery to fix mental problems. If something is wrong with them they work to fix it even if the end result would make them something entirely new.

If your friends could talk to you I think they would welcome the thought of being reborn. You will always have the memories of your times together. And now you have the opportunity to have many more.

They will not be strangers or someone new. Just your old friends who needed a little medical care to get them healthy again.

You can take as much time as you like to think things over. So let me know once you are sure what you would like to do.

1/2 Rulekeeper 2016/09/04(Sun)22:48 No. 746154 ID: d1f5f1
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>Rulekeep, can you do that? Say, take a pure 2202 cycle contestant then expose it to the memories in the strings in a way that emulates living out those experiences, so that the entire string-body adapts to the memories?
Yes, but given Mitten's attitude, he may not view a perfect clone of someone as that same someone.

I grab Alison and teleport straight into the referee room where Sweatermouse was taking care of the eggs. In our place, I leave a note for Mittens to read simply saying that we need not rush into a decision as of yet, and that Glitcher's glitcher babies are being born.

Here's there. That's a glitcher, alright. I think I will take care of him for awhile as my thoughts settle. The wrestling contest will continue in a while, and after that begins and I get Glitcher and my new child situated here, I will begin my experiments. Veil blocks, the veil residue itself, experimentation with cores, getting an encryption think tank and, to be frank, likely a think tank to assist in my experiments in general.

>"Ah?! Floating? Why are you floating? And a half snake person! That's not - wait is that normal?! Please tell me what's going on, this blue lady just keeps staring at me. Where am I? What's going on?"

He does not seem to realize that his feet are clipping through the floor. Sweatermouse is gesturing wildly with her face for me to say something to him.

2/2 Radmin 2016/09/04(Sun)22:49 No. 746156 ID: d1f5f1
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Your name is Radmin.

Within the secret confines of Sweatermouse's clothing dresser, you, the greatest Administrator that has or ever will live, have been hiding in secret for this moment for longer than you honestly care to think about. Some may say that you should have better things to do than nestle yourself between Sweatermouse's surprisingly diverse collection of sweaters in the room that the domain's gods have decreed the birthplace of their newborn. You, however, say that these people are short sighted dweebs.

You have just heard the words 'where am I, what's going on' from the offspring of Glitcher, which you know to be a golden invitation for an expositional explosion. While you are certain that the Rulekeeper is capable of supplying an adequate boring answer, you have a feeling that you can sum up the universe in far more descriptive terms.

That was anticlimactic. Not cute and cuddly at all. Hopefully the next egg will be a baby girl glitchkeeper or something.

Radmin, combo: confetti explosion + mega-sound speakers 1940's Disney jazz rap + song and dance number.

You good sir are in the universally famous wrestle dome! Located at the center of the great Luchador empire!

Your parents are the king and queen of our fair land and you are floating because you inherited there magical wrestling powers.

But be warned! Dark times have fallen on our fair kingdom as your father the great Glitcher has been spirited away by a horrible monster. You must assemble a group of 5 to take with you on a epic quest to save him from the clutches of the dreaded Ring Shell!

The blue lady is Sweatermouse the royal referee by the way.

>>746159
wonderful.

>>746154
Looks like your offspring skipped the adorable baby phase and jumped right to awkward teenager.

>That's a glitcher, alright.
Mostly. He takes more after his dad in appearance, but there are bits of you evident- he's got actual hair (though it's in desperate need of a motherly combing), his joints are the "right" way round, his snout is shaped differently, he's missing the two-tone color on his ears, and the ears are more rounded. Tail seems fluffier than the glitcher baseline, and the split in two at the end is much less pronounced.

>"Ah?! Floating? Why are you floating? And a half snake person! That's not - wait is that normal?! Please tell me what's going on, this blue lady just keeps staring at me. Where am I? What's going on?"
There's... a lot to explain, but things are about as normal here as they ever get.

My name is Rulekeeper, and I'm your mother. It's good to meet you. *snuggie hug*

>>746156
You're a freak, you freak!

>>746161
Two-tone color is acquired with age, or by being near Savior for a little while. Not sure at this point.

>>746154
Everything is normal. Honestly, as to what is going on here? That's a long story. we'll answer your questions on something a bit more specific.

>>746156
For once i think you should stay out of this lest you startle the new Glitcher. He might explode you on accident.

"Welcome.. To the world of tomorrow!"

Then infodump him full of things that are 80% correct and 20% spin.

I assume you were prepared and brought a shitload of confetti and glitter. Remember to throw it absolutely everywhere.

>>746163
>For once i think you should stay out of this lest you startle the new Glitcher. He might explode you on accident.
I agree with this guy. Plus, this is a big moment for Rulekeeper and if you deny her the opportunity to explain what's going on to her child, she might make you permanently cease to exist. And I don't mean just this cycle, I'm talking about if there's a reset, you're not going to exist in any cycle ever again! You don't want that to happen, right?

1/2 Radmin 2016/09/05(Mon)00:38 No. 746172 ID: d1f5f1
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>Stay out of it
Perhaps, there is a line in the sand somewhere that you have missed, that you will cross at some point.

But not today!

Especially since you cannot deny that you are highly aware of Rulekeeper's ability to stop time. While your confidence is as amazing as you are, you are also not delusional. You can recognize that you are not capable of taking away the moment from Rulekeeper.

You burst out of the dresser, sending it so far out as to trip Sweatermouse, sending her back inside of her sweater realm, which stinks of Alison fangirl and luchadore time-biding.

"Welcome, to the world of tomorrow, where wrestling reigns!" you yell out, popping your confetti bomb, no doubt leading to a ban on sales for this particular arcade reward. Thankfully, you stocked up, and until Rulekeeper bans your secret glitter warehouse, the bombings shall continue.
"Oh my god you stupid admin!" Sweatermouse yells as much of the glitter rains down on her. "It's everywhere! It's all ove-"

2/2 Radmin 2016/09/05(Mon)00:38 No. 746173 ID: d1f5f1
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You kick backwards, slamming the dresser shut with Sweatermouse still inside as you continue speaking.

"You are in the universally famous wrestedone, located at the center of the great Luchadore empire and created by your father, the Glitcher namesake himself, Glitcher! Your mother is the red toned individual, and you are floating because you have inherited their magical wrestling powers! But be warned! Dark times have fallen upon our fair kingdom as your father, the great Glitcher, has been SPIRITED AWAY to the NEGA DIMENSION by a horrible monster! You must assemble a group of 5 to take with you on an epic quest to save him from the clutches of the dreaded Ring Shell!"
>"Holy crap." says glitcher junior.
"And the blue lady, Sweatermouse, is the royal referee!"
"Aaaaaa did you lock this thing?!"
>"Man I nearly took you out!" says hair-glitcher. "I'm pretty sure my mom just saved your life? Somehow?"
"Yes yes I'm sure, and I, as the soon to be champion of the ring, have deemed you... anticlimactic! You aren't cute! You aren't cuddly! Why, we were expecting tiny glitcher babies, not immediate transformations from innocent egg to angsty teenager with overgrown hair!" you say, continuing to tempt fate despite that you did notice that Rulekeep stopped time for a moment. Perhaps longer than a moment, as shifted instantly into a slightly more relaxed expression. "Why, you even inherited his poorly fitted tank top, and his shorts that act like you're intruding on their personal space!"
>"This is just how I came out. I can't help that. Can I? Mom is any of this actually true?"
"..... that's essentially the gist of it, although it turned from being somewhat true to mostly false at the end." says Rulekeep. "I, for one, am not disappointed in you. With that said, however, I had to say 'mostly' false in the end, because he does raise a fair point about your hair, and although floating tank tops being a hereditary trait does sound odd, your father always did say they were a part of him and he was always in the nude. Anyways, let me comb that hair."
>"What's wrong with my hair?!"
"It looks as messy as that confetti bomb, as fired by Radmin, but you may call him Fiver. Your father never altered his looks, but I believe he had more difficulty doing so after spending so long with a single form, and so I suggest that you visit a mirror and, unless you like your current look, change into a form that you find nice. Radmin, please clean up that confetti."
>"There was glitter involved! The task for me is a long journey of frustration and futility, but you can clean it all up with a snap of your fingers!"
"True. You will be disqualified from your next match if this place isn't spotless by the time your next match begins. So, what a shame that I won't lift a finger for you. You better get started. Son, please understand that your mother and father have worked hard to create a world that, while not yet perfect, at least has enough justice to punish those who release glitter bombs upon innocent bystanders."

>>746173
...then I better get started immediately!

This sounds like a job for the greatest of all skills, delegation.

>>746175
but delegate it to whom? maybe by using Rulekeepers threat of disqualification against Sevener for being his partner he can get her to do it. or just find someone named like The Cleaner or something.

>>746173
Demand tribute from the mouse before releasing her from the confines of her sweatery prison

>>746178
He has a bunch of loyal system workers at his beck and call, remember?

Of course you would say that Rulekeeper, but listen well boy, their comes a time when every man must forge his own path, irrespective of the law. If our forefathers who built this great country had followed the rules, none of this would have been possible. Remember, they can coerce us into cleaning up confetti, but they can never take our FREEDOM!

Unnecessarily overpowered vacuum cleaner.

With honey-flavored candy sprinkle side shooters.

Rulekeeper said "make the room spotless", not "make the room microbe-free forever bo lever". Fire the dust eater, then wait for someone to ask what the side ports are and shoot Rulekeeper and her son in the face with candy glitter. Show Glitcher Junior how to "wing it 'till it falls off".

Also hey Sweatermouse did you accidentally DROP THE OTHER EGG?!

If we're still able to give suggestions to Rulekeep, then well, what about using those perfect clones as the organ donors, instead of the "clean slate" clones? You'd wind up duplicating all the contestants but maybe they can just be merged since they're identical and all, without any "stream of consciousness" issues.

Have your system members get you a broom/dust pan and clean up the aftermath of the glitter.

You only have to be a complete schmuck on-camera, after all.

>clean up the Glitter bomb
It's a good thing we have a squad of loyal teleporter operators, and that they have tongues.

Well then I had better get to work vacuuming every inch of poor Sweatermouse. Am sure she will enjoy the process.

Make sure to stop by and hang out once you get your bearings Junior. I can regal you with the amazing tales of my adventures and introduce you to the Admin crowd.

And all teasing aside congrats on being born. Your parents although stuffy at times are the best. And if by some miracle you can save your father we would all be very happy. Life is just not nearly as fun without him here to argue with.

Then go get your minions together and find a bunch of duct tape and vacuums so you can get this glitter cleaned up in entertaining fashion.

Oh wait, what if we just rolled Sweatermouse around the floor. The Glitter would stick to the sweater, right? And she could probably use ref powers to fix herself up later.

Hmm. Except we can't do that when she's wearing the egg. Rolling people on top of babies is too far.

Wait, shouldn't we check on the egg Sweatermouse was holding? It might not be good for her or the egg to be in there. Especially if the egg decides to suddenly hatch right now.

1/3 Radmin 2016/09/05(Mon)12:14 No. 746264 ID: d1f5f1
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>Egg care
You have managed to touch the egg before, and you are certain it is made of strong stuff. Since both Glitcher and Rulekeeper can modify properties, you are sure that that egg is made out of stuff stronger than steel, and you would not be able to do damage to it even if you tried. Nonetheless, you will refrain from playing a game of soccer with it.

"Then I suppose I should get started! Glitcher Junior, congratulations on being born. It is my place as administrator to endlessly tease you, but should you save your father, I will redirect my attentions back to him!"
>"Uh thanks? Speaking of attentions that snakelady has been hanging by the door."
"Yes, Alison! Stop by sometime and I will regal you with the amazing tale of Alison's fight against me! Perhaps I will regal your sibling right now before the second egg hatches!"
>"Hi! I'm Alison, and if you and Rulekeeper are willing, I'd like to learn about you for awhile."
>"I- I was just born like 5 seconds ago, I don't think there's much to learn." glitchkid says.
>"I disagree." Alison says, going in for the hug.
>"uhhhhhhh"
"I will be taking the egg. I expect it to hatch, soon, if the incubation time is similar." says Rulekeeper. "Thank you, Sweatermouse, for looking after them." says Rulekeeper, who teleports the egg from the dresser to herself before leaving. "I will let you know when it hatches if you would like to see."

2/3 Radmin 2016/09/05(Mon)12:15 No. 746267 ID: d1f5f1
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The three of them leave, leaving you and Sweatermouse alone, the latter of whom has just escaped from her sweatery prison.

"Cannot! Believe you! I don't even have the egg now!"
"Do those eggs even need warmth?"
"Maybe?! I don't know but just in case! I liked looking after them! With Alison! They probably know we're passing on our love to them through their eggs!"
"Looks like all you passed on was your hair."
"Wha - I was in my - whatever, what're you waiting for? This glitter isn't gonna pick up itself! Haha there's no way you can pick up this much in just a few hours! It's everywhere!"
"You underestimate me, mouse! You are speaking to an administrator, those who lie at the top of the food chain and with good reason! And as an administrator, I have honed the greatest skill of all. I speak of course, of delegation!"
"What? Who the heck would even work for you - oh right operators."

You Summon Operators.

.... but only three come.

"Huh. Looks like there's gonna be layoffs in the near future!"
"What? Having trouble? Are even the non-sapient system workers sick of you?"
"Hah, they were always an unreliable bunch, present company excluded!"
"You're gonna have to do some work yourself, huh?"
"You are correct! It is a good thing the egg has been moved, Sweatermouse!"

3/3 Radmin 2016/09/05(Mon)12:15 No. 746268 ID: d1f5f1
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You begin rolling Sweatermouse across the floor, which is far more effective than any reasonable person would expect.

"You are gonna have such referee bias against you!"
"And I'll still win!"

With the help of your few operators and Sweatermouse, this mess will be cleaned up in no time, which leaves you with a couple of hours before your next match.

>"Cannot! Believe you! I don't even have the egg now!"
Oh come on, that's not even my fault. She was totally gonna hog her kids to herself when they hatched.

>>746268
Obviously you're going to have to remove her sweater again so you can shake the glitter out somewhere.

You might want to thank your operators for the help, or offer them a good job or something, so they don't get all mopey and not show up the next time you need them.

>which leaves you with a couple of hours before your next match
How's your partner killing time? She doesn't seem like the type to be good at relaxing, and does she even have anyone to hang out with? She ended up sorta friends with Alison (but hey so does everyone) but Alison is busy with Rulekeep.

You could scrounge up prank materials. Or spy on other wrestlers. Or find Glamison again, she was cool.

Radmin, you huge poser, "regal" is majestic or like royalty, the word you were trying to use is "regale".

Anyway treat your loyal operators to some cake and ice cream or something, and transfer some of that glitter to your cape and mask because it looks good. Actually apply glitter to all of your clothes. Go find your tag teammate and apply glitter to her clothes as well! And also include her in cake and ice cream and also get her opinion on all of these shenanigans.

Man, missed the opportunity to tell the glitchkid that snake hugs are our currency. Oh well.

Go hang out with Sevener for a bit and see what she is up to. Maybe bring Sweatermouse along if she is not busy.

We need to go find out what all the normal people have been up to while our glorious leaders have been gallivanting across time and space wrecking things.

Oh and find out what hedonistic pleasures our missing operators are surely up to. They have to be distracted with something or more would have shown up to help.

Radmin 2016/09/05(Mon)13:43 No. 746298 ID: d1f5f1
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>It's regale, not regal, you poser
Some say you're not even a real luchador!

"Operators! Do you enjoy cake and ice cream?"
>"Sure?" one says.
"Then I shall treat you loyal three to some, for the rest apparently have greater goals than assisting administrators!"
"You're not even admins now!"
"Hm, I might like to know what the other wrestlers are up to, although there is a lingering curiosity in my head regarding why most of my operators didn't arrive! Usually they at least show up before being unreliable. Gonna come with me, Sweatermouse?"
>"I got better things to do!"
"Like taking care of all those eggs in this room?"
>"Like cleaning off all this glitter!"
"Well I, for one, am going to see what Sevener is up to!"

Sweatermouse brings up a good point about glitter, however. While glitter looks good on you, so does anything.

Keep glitter on uniform? y/n

>treating 3 loyal Operators
Aren't the Operators a collective, like the Shopkeep? You're not rewarding the three of them that are loyal, you're paying him in ice cream proportional to the number of bodies he felt like sending you.

>I might like to know what the other wrestlers are up to, although there is a lingering curiosity in my head regarding why most of my operators didn't arrive! Usually they at least show up before being unreliable.
Maybe some other dastardly wrestler is attempting to weaken you by capturing your Operators while you weren't looking? You might need to rescue your minions! Or use your remaining ones to bait a trap.

>>"Like cleaning off all this glitter!"
I still think you need to "help" her by snatching off her sweater to shake the Glitter out somewhere. (Over someone else's head?)

>Keep glitter on uniform? y/n
Naaaah. Let's find someone and shake it off all over them.

Yee. You're looking extra fab now, and really, if you had to clean it off then you'd be experiencing a negative consequence of your actions, which is something that never happens to you, because you're a genius.

Now say goodby to Glittermouse, you have suckers to harass.

Yeah, lets keep the glitter on. It'll have the wonderful side effect of getting glitter on anyone you pass, because that stuff gets anywhere and everywhere, even if you think you got rid of it all.

Glitter on the competition! +5 Style Points
Make sure to at least be a jerk to Glittermouse (in true Radmin style of course) otherwise it's not authentic

>>746298
>Keep glitter on uniform? y/n
Y
Or at least on the cape, for dramatic flourishes (and to shake onto opponents for mild annoyance).

Y, unless it's too much bother to draw you think it doesn't suit your heel persona. To be frank, though, being a big sparkly jerk fits you even better than just being a big jerk.

Keep the glitter. If anything we can shake it off onto someone and blind them with it!

No.

1/2 Radmin 2016/09/05(Mon)15:35 No. 746340 ID: d1f5f1
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Being someone immune to negative effects of your own actions, the answer must be to keep the glitter on.

>Operator as a collective?
Operators are weird, and although in theory they act as a single person spawning and respawning, when there are multiple operators, they are slightly different from one another. In truth, you have a feeling that there are many operators that act as a collective, as opposed to the shopkeep, or a hivemind.

"Hm, yes, this glitter looks excellent on me, or at least my cape. Of course, my teammate must match, so I should grab more glitter! Too bad I'm out of bombs."
"Like I believe that."
"I do not need your belief! I need your sweater!"
"What?!"

You yank off her sweater and make a break to go shake it off on Sevener's uniform.

"You just saw I have like 10 spares you meatbrain, and I could just summon that sweater back on me if I didn't want to see you get beat up by Sevener! They're - oh god the spares are covered in glitter too?!"
"Goodbye, Glittermouse!"

2/2 Radmin 2016/09/05(Mon)15:36 No. 746342 ID: d1f5f1
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Sevener did not want to walk in public with her Luchador costume, and trusted its position within your dressing room. She will pay dearly for not holding true to the luchador ways, which you assume means wearing the costume at all times. After committing the perfect crime, you leave the scene to go find others.

You pass Glamison on the way out.

>"Oh, hey, was looking for you!" she says.
"Who isn't?"
>"I can think of a few who are doing the opposite, but I was asked to deliver a note for you."
"What's it say?"
>"Damn, show a little faith. I haven't read it." She flings the note at you. "Nice glitter."

The operators are no longer your slaves. Although non-sapient, Quarry shows them far more respect. We will follow him instead.
- Operand

Wait a minute we have not been jerks to the operators! Quarry has obviously seduced them with something better than ice cream.

Go find the operator collective head and win back your guys!

If they want respect and such we need to get them official costumes and make them part of the team.

Ask who gave her the note.

That's interesting, the message changes perspective part way through, The operators, them, but then changes to we at the end. Could mean the note-writer was not a operator, but doesn't explain the change to we at the end.

What kinda name is Operand though?

>Operand
Who's the Operand?

And come on, I didn't even treat them like slaves! They got to do good stuff, and I was paying them with promises of making their lives better when I get to be an admin. Quarry is one of those jerks who thinks puzzle-hell should continue forever!

Who gave you this?

This sounds like it bears investigating.

...should you go find Supervisor or some of those other people to help you? You signed them on before, but then just put them out of the way for now.

We have another task in addition to getting our Operators back. I really wanna steal that Alison summoning tool from Guitar Knight before his next match. Replace it with a fake that will spurt ink in his face or something.

Recruit Glamison as a partner in crime. She's cool like that.

Oh, wait, what happened to the Operators you were gonna buy ice cream? Did they disappear, or get stolen away? You might need to force march them to the ice cream stall under armed escort.

>>746356
>I really wanna steal that Alison summoning tool from Guitar Knight before his next match.
This is a good idea and I think we should do it quickly before Guitar Knight tries to replace Glamison again.

>Recruit Glamison as a partner in crime.
Also a good idea because she wouldn't want to be unsummoned. Which actually makes her the perfect partner for this and is good motivation to get her to help.

>She's cool like that.
Damn right she is!

>>746362
I'm reasonably confident GK can summon more for backup without desummoning her, since she's kind of broken off to do her own thing now.

I mean, it's only fair he have one on his team at a time, but there's no reason spare Alisons can't join the audience.

>>746348
Operand is a particularly interesting name.

"Operation" is something which that is done. "Operator" is that which performs the operation. "Operand," on the other hand, is that which is affected by the operation.

So for example, in the statement "3 + 5 = 8," "+" is the operator, while "3" and "5" are the operands.

I have almost no idea what this means in this context... who do the operators most often affect? The stages?

>>746348
On a related note, it's understandable that the pronouns would change partway through. "They" would refer to the operators, while "we" would refer to both the operators and to Operand.

>>746371
Well, they were Teleport Operators, which would mean the object being affected on is either the teleporter (directly), or the person being teleported (indirectly).

>>746363
It was explained in a previous thread that Guitar Knight has to desummon Glamison in order to summon a different Alison. If he could summon more Alisons, it would be considered cheating because there's only supposed to be 2 wrestlers on a team.

Besides, it was never stated that GK and Glamison aren't on a team anymore. They just don't have a match right now, so they're both doing something on their own until they have a match. Just like how Sevener isn't here with Radmin, she's doing something while Radmin is doing something until they're called in for a match.

>>746390
The item works however Rulekeep wants it to work, and she's more fair than stickler. If Glamison isn't helping GK anymore, she wouldn't forcibly banish her simply so he can continue.

>>746403
That's what I just said. Glitcher and Rulekeeper designed GK's necklace to work like that because if GK was allowed to summon any number of Alisons he wanted during a match, he would be winning. Which is why he's limited to one Alison at a time.

Also, it has never been mentioned anywhere that GK and Glamison are not on a team anymore. Just because they're not hanging around each other 24/7 doesn't mean they're not on a team. By your logic, that would mean that Sevener and Radmin aren't on a team also! So where are you getting that GK and Glamison aren't on a team anymore?

>>746372
...did a teleporter write us a letter?

>>746448
I think it's more a person who saw him "Claiming" the Operators was the person effected by "how they were treated."

Well, Radmin is no slaver, so if the Operators so choose to serve under Quarry instead, they may do so!

>>746411
You're missing the actual point I was trying to make: Glamison doesn't have a survival motive to help us secure the summoning device. If she decides to drop the partner who already tried to kick her to the curb once, she doesn't need to make sure the item is secure to stick around.

This is ridiculous, I can't believe our administrators would fall into the hands of a punk-ass bitch-ass loser-ass loser like Quarry. We're gonna have to give Quarry, and this "Operand" character a serious beatdown. But first, reconnaissance. We need to verify the validity of that letter, we need to figure out where Quarry and our Operators are, and we need to review the footage of how Quarry fights, then we can give him a well deserved beatdown.

>>746502
And you're still assuming that they're not a team anymore and not explaining where you heard that! So until it is stated in quest that GK and Glamison are not on a team anymore and that Rulekeeper has made it so that Glamison can stick around, she has a motive to help so that she doesn't get replaced!

Radmin 2016/09/06(Tue)20:06 No. 746710 ID: d1f5f1
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"Some losers think they can take operators from me! Those losers might be the operators themselves. It wasn't even slave labor! They joined of their own free will, and now they leave of it!"
>"So, uh, you gonna let them go?"
"No, I'm going to make them realize they want to be my minions!"

>Where are your 3 operators?
Behind you, barely in sight but still present, as it should be.

"Who gave you the letter?"
>"An operator, of course, after word got out we were hanging out together."
"No mention on who the Operand is?"
>"Who?"
"I guess not. I'm going to find out! And I'd like you to join me."
>"Damn right you do."
"And while we walk, I'm left wondering what would happen it GK needed to summon a new Alison?"
>"He already did, just a little while ago. Rulekeeper came up to me saying that it would be too cruel to just put me back to sleep because GK wanted an Alison without a stupid tickle weaknesses. She took the words right out of my mouth, and made them a lot nicer too!"
"Good! Operators! One of you fetch me footage of Quarry's fight, another one go show me where the rest of the operators were last seen, and the third go get some ice cream."

Your remaining operator explains, on further questioning, that there is definitely someone out there named Operand, and the letter is feasably written by him. He leads you to an entrance to a club made for what appears to be short people. An operator holding a clipboard is blocking it.

>"Sorry, Operators, other system employees, and special guests only." says the operator.
"I'm Radmin. The 'admin' part of that stands for 'admin'. You must've come out from under a rock to not know me!"
>"Well, you're at least right about me not knowing you." he says like he just said the sky is green. Wait, is it green now? Whatever. "It doesn't look like you're one of the current four administrators in power, and ex-system employees are not invited. Sorry, you're not on the list."

>>746710
Ask Glamison to keep him busy while you poke your nose into whatever this is. By all rights you SHOULD be a special guest!

>And I'd like you to join me."
>>"Damn right you do."
Glad to have you on board. Recruiting an Alison will probably just annoy the heck out of my partner, which only makes this better.

>"Sorry, Operators, other system employees, and special guests only."
>ex-system employees are not invited
Depending on how you look at it, that means either everyone is invited to your party or no one is.

On the one hand, every system person here is ex in one sense or another. You either died, or ditched your post. Even you, little operator dude. All the legit system people are outside, running their brackets right now.

On the other hand, the legit admins authorized this whole thing, and everyone here was collected and/or resurrected by Rulekeep, who is a system entity.

So let me in or pull the fire alarm and evacuate that place already.

>special guests only
You could ask if your last remaining Operator is allowed inside. Then ask him to invite you in as a special guest.

...or you know we could always just pick the Operator guard up and stuff him in Glamison's hair or something. He can be our living day pass. See, we're totally with an operator. Don't mind him, he's just getting a very intense hug session. Poor guy was lonely!

>GK already got a new Alison
He didn't wait to do the summoning in the ring, for the dramatic reveal?

Oh well, we should still steal that thing from him. There has to be something funny we can do with it.

Woo there little buddy I was personally pulled out of a very successful stage run to personally join the admin competition by Glitcher and Rulekeeper themselves.

And as they are our new overlords that makes me one of the highest ranking people around.

Until this competition is over there are no official system admins in place other than Rulekeeper. Which means you do not have a official job until this is finished. All system employees are on unpaid leave at the moment.

Plus do you really want to get off on a bad food with someone who is going to be your boss in the near future? I have never been mean to the operators but if you guys abandon me at a moments notice I might have to find replacement help once I take power.

I hear Shopkeeper is a reliable fellow. Maybe he would like to take on your guy's old job.

Wait, so is this guy saying that he's currently employed by the system? How the heck does that work? Shouldn't he be back in the system brackets operating stuff? What's he doing slacking off down here? Did a placeholder admin order him down here?

If he still won't let you in tell him that you wanted to do this the easy way, but you're going to inspect his place to see if it's up to code. If he asks for your warrant punch him in the face.

Not being let into a place?

...

Where'd that truck go?

Lets not crash their party, for some reason we've lost reputation with the collective, so disrupting it isn't going to help. Neither would sending in one of our operators, as that wouldn't help counter the idea that we treat them as slaves. So I'd just ask if the door guard could pass a message to the one called Operand saying that we would like to speak to them.

>>746785
Pretty sure that "not forcibly injecting ourself into the situation" isnt an option. This is Radmin we're talking about here.
Kindly ask our remaining operator friend to look around for the person who wrote the letter. While they're doing that we should go beat up Quarry.

Obviously, you need to go to Shopkeep, or to Rulekeepr, and get yourself disguised as an Operator so you can sneak in.

>>746778
I'm changing my backup plan to this. We should try to gather more information first though, going into places blind is for when we don't have assloads of time on our hands.

1/2 Radmin 2016/09/08(Thu)20:33 No. 747138 ID: d1f5f1
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"Well, we all know that I'm not just going to let this go by without some Radmintervention!" You say, now mildly wishing that, just for this moment, your partner in crime was Mint. "Can my Operator go in?"
>"Yes."
"Can my Operator make me a special guest?"
>"Yes."
>"Please make Radmin a special guest." says your Operator.
>"Okay. Radmin, you may come in."

>"Wow. Really?" says Glam Alison.
"Yes. Have you noticed I do not take Operators all that seriously? This is why!"
>"They're right there, man." she says.
"Do you two care about what I said?" you ask to the operators.
>"No." one says.
>"No." says the other.
"See?"
>"Still! That seemed a little easy, didn't it? At least a little anticlimactic."
"Very much so!"
>"I guess we've just got to go on in, now."
"Guess so."
>"... just like that."
"Yyyyyep."

You and Alison share a look.

2/2 Radmin 2016/09/08(Thu)20:33 No. 747139 ID: d1f5f1
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You both crash your monster truck through the wall.

Your words were just going to yell 'BEEP BEEP OPERATORS' or something to that effect, but conveniently, Quarry is right there.

Challenge him to a wrestling match for the crime of trying to confuse the poor operators and turn them against you.

>>747139
Beat up Quarry. Use lots of tables and chairs and shit,

"I QUARRIED YOUR WALL!"

If anyone asks, tell them that you were invited in, you just wanted to go get your monster truck and show it off to everyone. You just needed to make a door to fit it in the building. And then honk the funny sounding horn.

>>747138
The operators are pretty chill, man. They don't really care that you're messing with them. They probably also don't really care that quarry is using them to mess with you.

That or they just enjoy all of this so they're letting it happen.

>>747139
The special guests of honor have arrived!

I'm Doctor awesome, here with my lovely nurse, and it's come our attention you've got an uncomfortable stone. We're here to Operate. (Bonus points for manifesting costumes on the spot).

And how fortuitous! The fox has already found his quarry, and is spared a longer hunt!

Suplex Monstertruck onto Quarry

>>747168
Best part is, as a surprise attack that'd use the Dirty Tricks stat, and no one is better at that than Radmin.

You brought drinks and party favors, right?

Anyway stand up on the hood of your truck and declare that you're here to answer the scurrilous claims about your treatment of the Operators. You will beat up Quarry in a moment, but first you want to meet this Operand who's been smearing your name.

>>747177

A bit stretching it. Dirty move here would be to pin him under a tire and rub it in by standing on top.

Radmin 2016/09/11(Sun)11:05 No. 747466 ID: d1f5f1
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"Well well well, the special guests of honor have arrived, and it looks like the fox already has his quarry?" you say, standing on top of the hood.
>"Didja crash through my wall jus' to make bad puns, bastard? Doesn't even work, it's the other quarry."
"Then I quarried your wall! The place is tiny, so I had to make an entrance. Now, I'll come beat you up in a second, but I want to meet this Operand who's been smearing my name like I haven't been treating the operators well!"
>"That's impressive, considering how hard it is to smear a slime pit."
"Hey, the operators know I mess with 'em a bit, not pretend like I'm their hero and use them to mess with others!"
>"What are you talking about? I'm letting them go back to what they were made for. I represent their natural habitat, and you've got some nerve to challenge me when I've got the operator back up!"
"Really? I don't think it takes much nerve to challenge the person who lost their only match."
>"That just means you're too stupid to understand your situation. Operand is in another room, but you aren't seeing him without getting through me, so just try to take me out, fox!"

A) Leap down, enter combat with tables, chairs, operators and so forth.
B) Have Alison run him over.
C) >_____

Running him over with a truck wouldn't be very good sportsmanship...
Run him over with the truck.

>Doesn't even work, it's the other quarry.
Of course it works. Alternate meanings are fair game in wordplay. And it's his own fault for choosing a name with multiple meanings.

>>747466
>B
Well if you're going to insist on getting up in my grill... I suppose I can oblige!

Wait, how is Alison supposed to drive a monster truck without feet. Can her tail even work the pedals?

B

Pin him under the wheel so you can poke at him as he struggles to get free.

Suplex Monstertruck onto Qaurry.

>>747498
Suplex the monster truck on him, then run him over with the monster truck.

Look out for doors which could lead to where Operand is, then B. Once Quarry is squashed, go search the place for Operand.

B. Then pile drive whatever is left sticking out.

B. Dirty showmanship is what we're KNOWN for, after all :D

Truck Quarry into a monster suplex.

Radmin 2016/09/18(Sun)11:47 No. 748428 ID: d1f5f1
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>Suplex Monstertruck
You imagine you would need the entire stadium's audience to cheer for such a thing before you'd get the strength stars needed to do something like that. You doubt that even the most strength-boosted wrestlers couldn't do that without events leading up to it!

"If you're going to get up in my grill, then do it literally, too! Alison," you say, "the gas pedal."

The truck lurches forward as Alison's tail smothers the gas pedal. From its movements and the sound of the engine working like it's towing two more monster trucks behind it, you're pretty certain that she's smothering the brakes, too.

>"I can't see a damn thing!" she yells out the window at you. "Where is he?"
"Right, right! Yes, forwa- wait he just rolled between the wheels!" Despite having a large front grill, there is still enough room between that and the ground for him to duck under and through "Reverse and turn!"

Alison swerves the truck back and to the side with enough of a jerk to get it to list unnervingly far to the side. You don't see Quarry anymore.

Well you just ran over something to get the truck leaning like that.

Maybe have Alison just do donuts in the room for a bit so you are sure you run him down. No one can get actually hurt by this display but running down operators left and right might look bad. Even if they don't care to much.

>>748428
He must be hiding under the car. Downside of being so far off the ground.

Jump off the hood, across the room, and grab some plates off a table that wasn't ruined. Then you can crouch down and throw them Frisbee style at him.

>>748428
Sounds like it's time to get out of the truck and do some improper wrestling.

Radmin 2016/09/18(Sun)12:55 No. 748441 ID: d1f5f1
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>Running over operators might look bad
It might, but when they hardly care and no one truly gets hurt, attempting to play soft with them would, the way you see it, simply be insultingly coddling to their kind.

You'd also rather not have to go back on the run-him-over plan and actually get off the truck.

"Alison, start doing donuts!"

The ride is smoother than you'd expect, and although you have to hang onto the top grill bar to stay on, you make sure your cape is sufficiently flailing in the air to blind everyone who looks too hard at it.

>"Hey, Radmin!" Alison shouts. "He's not down there! He's climbing up into the truck, uh... back? Loading zone? Bed?"

You also can't help but notice that many of the operators that aren't getting run over are running into another room.

>>748441
Have Alison slam on the breaks so he's thrown head-first into the back of the truck.

And then vault over and kick him in the head.

Time for wrestling in the back of a giant truck! ...this is actually a little awkward. I'm not sure how to effectively fight him since he's probably stronger than Radmin.

I guess we could do a two-on-one?

1/2 Radmin 2016/09/18(Sun)13:44 No. 748446 ID: d1f5f1
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"Alison, slam the brakes!"
>"Fuck that, you'll fall off sooner than Quarry!"
"Just a little! However much you think I can handle!"

She taps the brake with her tail.

"Oh, is that how it is, Glamison?!"
>"You nearly fell off from that!"
"Fine, then we'll take on quarry ourselves!"
>"Man, I really want to drive this thing, too. But alright!"

Alison slithers out of the car onto the roof, and you climb up onto it as well, where the both of you overlook Quarry, who has just planted himself in the middle of the bed.

>"Of course you're not above a two versus one." Quarry says. "My teammate will arrive soon to make this fair."
"Then by the time he shows up, he'll have a good idea of what getting beat up is like! Ah, wait, I just remembered you two already knew all about that."
>"Then come down here and I'll teach you myself."
>"... is the car supposed to be moving?" Alison says. "It's still rolling forward, so I have to keep my tail down there to push the brakes down.."

>"Radmin." A voice booms from behind you.

2/2 Radmin 2016/09/18(Sun)13:45 No. 748447 ID: d1f5f1
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>"I am the collective made conscience. I represent the independence of all operators. You, who immediately put them back under your heel, have been the subject of my meditation for the last few hours. And now, you will be the subject of what happens to those who use the collective as a tool. I will rip your mask off of your face and show it to the entire audience, and you will no longer be able to wrestle again. Any other wrestlers who do not take the hint will suffer a similar fate."

>"My teammate will arrive soon to make this fair."
If my teammate hasn't already beat him to a pulp! She's probably taking out her frustration out on someone.

>>748447
Dude, are you like the collective of all the dumbest parts of the Operators? Cause I totally called for volunteers to my awesome cause, and the only people put under my heel were other wrestlers.

>what do
Delegate Quarry to Galmison (she's an unfair cheating grapple monster) and take the wheel yourself.

If the giant monster wants you, you're going to lead in on a merry chase. Right through the dressing rooms and hangouts of the other wrestlers. Let's see how much collateral damage we can get it to cause while chasing us.

If we could steal Guitar Knight's Alison summoning tool that would be cool. We could bury the giant in a snake-hug pile!

You know I am getting tired of everyone assuming that I abused you operators.

Your job was to help admins with our jobs. I asked for help and you willingly gave it. Never once did you complain or hesitate to help me.

If all of you are in there look back on your memories of me. I was just as nice to you as any admin you served. And if you had bothered to ask me for anything I would have helped you get it. So don't start complaining about stuff you never asked for.

So bring it on you big dope. If I need to beat some sense into you then so be it.

I would leave Alison to fight this guy in the back and you ram the truck into the big guy.

Well that's terrifying, from the stats it looks like Operand's built to be like a bull in a china shop.

Say, we could have either Glamison or Radmin fight Quarry with the other one driving the truck. Then taunt Operand into chasing us and run away in the monster truck. That might wear Operand down enough that they're not so unstoppable.

>>748447
Well excuse me for assuming that since the operators don't care about anything, they wouldn't care about being servants! You can't be aware of the entire collective, since then you'd be aware that I'm currently getting ice cream for the few operators still loyal! Who are you really?

Idea: get your loyal operator to keep your face covered. Operand wouldn't DARE mistreat an operator, so he won't be able to tear the "mask" off you.

>>748458
>>748450
These. Also, I wonder if someone's ordering them to do this or they did it of their own will.

Judging from how Operand is absorbing Operators to form, well, himself, it might be possible to defeat him by striking him with something really heavy that's moving very fast.

Like say, a dropped monster truck or maybe a wrecking ball (if such a thing even exists in the arena)

"Hey guy, or guys, if you had a problem with your employment you could have said something earlier! Instead you just say nothing, until deciding to just take off entirely with this chump? You ever thinking of talking to both of us? Get a bidding war going for your services? Negotiate for your own profit? No you didn't, and I came here to tell you: that's pretty dumb, guys! Well, I'm not going to stand for your slander. You want an audience, then open this place up and let's have one, because I want everyone to see me take you down!!"

The guy looks pretty top-heavy, and he's given himself some terribly tiny feet. You can probably knock him over with a strong enough impact high up, or trip him over something. Alison, for example.

Radmin 2016/09/18(Sun)16:43 No. 748480 ID: d1f5f1
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"You must be made up of all the dumbest parts of operators. The operators have always been free to not work for me! Why, I'd say I was one of the most respectful of administrators!"
>"This is not personal or vindictive. It is just an example. The operators are free, and it is not enough to simply tell people that. You must be the example."
"I'd say we should have a big discussion about how you could've talked it over, but I doubt your intellect for that!

Before you can do much else, Operand approaches the monster truck. Tiny feet or not, those feet are at least as big as you, and Operand himself is about as big as the truck. Even if you can tackle him with the car, you don't have the utmost confidence that it'll get him out of the picture, or that the truck will end up alright. If you ran the truck off a building and landed on him or find some other such momentum, then it may work.

"Alison, I'm taking the wheel! Fight Quarry with your ridiculous grappling body!"
>"Fine, ya wuss! I've got him!"

Alison's tail uncoils around the wheel, gear shifter and pedals, leaving you to flip it in reverse and back out of the Operand's reach. After flipping around, you drive forward out of the operator's place with the operand chasing after you.

Your monster truck has proven capable of going through walls with only minimal slowdown, and you can drive virtually anywhere. The streets are wide open, but you also can drive it through public areas, dressing rooms, and a variety of tunnels and elevated highways across town.

Make sure to drive it through ever other teams dressing rooms before you lure the big guy to a bridge or something.

Then drive the truck off it onto him or knock him off it.

Really just make a mess of things while you look for a good ramming spot.

>>748480
Now THIS is entertainment. Drive around through an assortment of locations for maximum Chase Scene corniness. Try to end it with luring Operand into some terrain he can't traverse very easily that also has a height difference (like a pit or a cliff) and drop the truck on him to split him back up.

Just drive on the wrong side of the road for now, But don't take obstacles into account when Alison needs the field tilted or if Operand starts throwing things.

>>748480
Drive through all the opposing teams dressing rooms, one by one. You'll put holes in the wall, and then the Operand following you will demolish what's left.

Then we start looking for terrain where it would be hard for that doof to follow you.

If you find the ice cream Operator, pick him up and throw him at Operand. Maybe it'll make him less stupid?

If you drive past Supervisor or any of your other former and subsequently re-recruited minions, maybe pick them up, since the Operator corps have turned traitor.

If we pass Guitar Knight, grab the thing around his neck, and use it to summon a pile of Alisons on the Operand. Hug pile, snake ball, whatever.

>>748482 This, but end the chase by going to the highway, finding a section where you can U-turn onto an elevated road and them ramp off of it and onto him.

Are there any conveniently placed canyons near the town? Running Opperand off a cliff would be the perfect end to the chase, it's a classic.

Radmin 2016/09/18(Sun)17:29 No. 748496 ID: d1f5f1
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Judging by what you studied about the layout, you should be able to crash through few dressing rooms without slowing down too much that Operand will be able to catch up before you even have a chance to hit the streets and look for an appropriate position to end Operand's chase. You'll worry about where canyons, cliffs, elevated roads and so forth are after you make it out of the stadium area.

While driving to the dressing rooms, you see a blue, shining circle take shape in front of you, on the truck's hood. Behind you, Alison and Quarry seem evenly matched.

"There's a fight going on apparently so I'm going to teleport in to referee it! Refer it? Judge it!" You hear Sweatermouse's voice out of the circle. "Please clear room around the portal so I don't teleport inside anyone or anything weird!"

You can think of two big options regarding dressing rooms, but unfortunately, both of them involve people who probably aren't going to conveniently sit by and wait for you to crash into their dressing room, and so the chance of success of either one will greatly increase if you go their first.

A) Ram into Guitar Knight's room in a quick attempt to steal his Alison-summoning necklace.
B) Ram into your own room. Your adversity-sense tells you that Sevener is there, and if you can pick her up, you will all but ensure victory over Quarry.

Voting B.

>"There's a fight going on apparently so I'm going to teleport in to referee it! Refer it? Judge it!"
How does that work? You're not in a ring, and Glamison and the Operands are both technically meddling free agents. You and Quarry are the "real" wrestlers here and you aren't even fighting each other.

>"Please clear room around the portal so I don't teleport inside anyone or anything weird!"
She's going to end up face planting or butt planting right on the windshield as soon as she ports in.

>teleporting in
Hey Operand, if you really want to complain about unfairness towards Teleport Operators, it should be over the fact none of you are the ones running that!

>Behind you, Alison and Quarry seem evenly matched.
Geeze, he must be pretty strong to stand up to the grapple hug monster.

>what do
A. It's more fun, and B will just piss Sevener off, and wreck your own room. Quarry isn't even the real threat here, Operand is.

Sevener will probably see the fight on the tv and can jump into the fight off a bridge or something later.

We're definitely a gambling man, but Radmin only gambles when losing is still winning. We'd be betting a lot more by going for the pendant than by hitting up our reliable ally, and we stand to gain more hyping our teammate up with a fight than we do by dragging yet another Alison into this mess.

B

I sort of want to see this truck covered in dozens of Alisons as we swerve down the road.

So go for A.

Oh and be ready to grab Sweater once she bounces off the windshield.

B. We already have an Alison, let's go for more variety.

Voting A.

If we don't try for the necklace NOW, guitar knight might get away entirely and if we bust into our own locker room, sevener might end up getting run over because she's not expecting it.

A is for Alison.

A. No-one can defeat a hoard of Alisons!

A, if we piss off Severn too much she might beat us up instead of Quarry.

Is that a break warning light on the dash? With what Glamison said earlier, maybe Quarry cut the break lines when he went under the truck?

1/3 Radmin 2016/09/18(Sun)19:37 No. 748527 ID: d1f5f1
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>How does [Sweatermouse refereeing] work?
You're not sure. You might have been able to find out when she first ran into one of your fights, but she never got a chance to do whatever it is she was going to do.

>Is that a break warning light on the dash?
Yes, there appears to be flashing "E. Brake" letters. You do not know what they mean, and your brakes appear to function.

Sweatermouse materializes in front of you. Her feet immediately plant themselves down on the hood with a velocity difference of over 70 kmh. Her 'aaaaaa's wobble in volume as she unceremoniously tumbles towards the windshield, slams into it, and rolls straight off of it.

2/3 Radmin 2016/09/18(Sun)19:41 No. 748530 ID: d1f5f1
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You are, however, prepared to catch her. The blue circle remains on the hood, although it doesn't appear to be shining any longer.

Sweatermouse starts yelling questions about what is going on, as you yell at Alison what the plan is and crash through Guitar Knight's place.

Guitar Knight is in his dressing room doing some inconsequential activity. Conveniently his amulet is wrapped around him, and although he does avoid getting ran over, he ends up right next to Alison and her giant mass of maneuverable hair.

>"No hard feelings, we'll give it back before your next match!" Alison calls out to him.

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She yanks the amulet off of him and whips her hair around to toss it around your neck as you demolish other dressing rooms. Much of what remains intact is further messed up by Operand crashing through himself.

"You guys stop this truck right now so that we have have a proper match with you and Quarry!"
"Hm? But I'm not fighting him!"
"Glamison is basically an honorary wrestler at this point! I dunno I'd ref them I guess but how am I supposed to referee on a stage like this?!"

>>748529
We already humiliated Quarry and Tower once, why do I need to have a fair match again? We already won!

Also I can't really stop to have a fair wrestling match with anyone while that giant is chasing us, and he's not even a wrestler! Take a look in the mirror!

>what do
Lean out the window, and start summoning Alisons en mass in mid air to tangle up and hug the Operand.

Leave your foot on the gas and let go of the wheel while you do so. Tell Sweatermouse she better steer if she doesn't want to crash!

>>748527
>E.Brake warning
>your brakes appear to function
Um. Check for a lever between the seats. Try pushing it back down. Or ask Sweatermouse if she knows what an e.brake is.

As for the fight thing tell her she can either get in the back with the tusslers, or yell at them through the rear window. Also ask if Operand is considered a wrestler. Would she object to Glamison fighting Operand while you fight Quarry with the assistance of another summoned Alison?

>>748532
>Lean out the window, and start summoning Alisons en mass in mid air to tangle up and hug the Operand.
Oh god, please this.

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"Now why would I care about a fair match?"
"Cause I'm asking you nicely?!"
"Haha, with an attitude like that, I'd never make it past the preliminaries!"

>Look for a lever between the seats. Push it down
You fiddle with a lever you find, recalling it does something important. The E. Brake light goes off and the truck lurches forward with newfound power.

>"What was that?!" Alison says as she and Quarry slide backwards.
"I found the boost lever! I'm going to start summoning Alisons. Sweatermouse, I'm going to lean out the window! If you don't want us to crash, you better take the wheel!"
"I don't know how to drive!"
"Hey, you don't know how to ref, either, but you still do the job."
"I - thanks?!" Sweatermouse dives forward to grab the wheel. "I can't see over the steering wheel!"

You lean out the window, let the amulet flail in the wind, prepare to summon an Alison of your choice, and realize you have no idea how this thing works.

>>748535
Guitar Knight used music to activate it, right? Try humming a tune. Or if you have any kind of musical instrument in your weapon types you could summon that up and play something. If you're doing that you might want to get in the back so you have room for your instrument.

Or maybe you can steal an article of clothing from someone with musical talent and use that as a mask to unlock musical expertise?

Can't sweatermouse see over the wheel if she stands up? Or sits on her knees? Or sits on your lap?

>"I can't see over the steering wheel!"
She needs a boost up! Sit her in your lap.

Not for any other reason. Nope!

>and realize you have no idea how this thing works.
Think Alison-y thoughts? Whistle? Hum? Blow on it? Just start trying things!

You can try to do air guitar and mime the sounds with your mouth. Try for something country.

If guitar Knight used music to summon Glamison then use something that relates to you. Like yell at it for the Super Lucha Alison.
>>748537
If that doesn't work try this but do the first part to block her view of the match.